first I named Salton Creek and other Isabella Creek. The country we
passed over from our last camp consists chiefly of high and wooded downs,
and though the soil was rich the grass and saltbush, from the want of
rain, was rather dry. The country near the watercourses is wooded with
myall, western-wood acacia, and Port Curtis sandalwood. We came here in
about the following courses: 10.27 south-south-west for four and
three-quarter miles to Salton Creek; 11.5 a.m. south-south-west for one
and three-quarter miles to Salton Creek; 11.30 a.m. south-south-east for
one and a half miles to Isabella Creek; 12 a.m. south-south-east for one
and a half miles; 12.35 a.m. east one mile; 12.50 a.m. south-east for one
mile; 1.55 p.m. west-south-west for three miles; 3.30 a.m.
south-south-west for three and a half miles to Stark Creek. Distance
today eighteen miles.

April 5.

We left camp this morning at 8.20 a.m. The Camp 43 is situated on the
right bank of Stark Creek. We travelled in the first instance slightly to
the westward of south with the view of reaching the river. In a few miles
we crossed a large watercourse at present dry but with extensive
flood-marks and heaps of mussel-shells on its banks. This creek I named
Porteous Creek. A few miles further in the same direction we crossed a
small watercourse which apparently joins Porteous Creek. The banks are
wooded with myall. Behind these belts of myall the country rises in
gentle undulations, the soil is rich, almost without trees, and from the
appearance of the grass it was evident there had been no rain for a long
time. In the afternoon we went north-westerly and by that course reached
the river; then after following it down for a short distance we encamped.
The appearance of the grass we saw in the afternoon was fresher than that
we had seen earlier in the day; and near the river, where the low ground