following up the river today we saw several blacks; some of them wished
to speak to us but we passed them without stopping to do so. We came here
on the following courses from 53 Camp: 11.27 north-east half north three
miles; 12.20 ---- miles; 1.40 east-north-east three and a half miles;
2.25 east by north three and a half miles; 4.25 north-east six miles; 5
east one and a half miles to our crossing-place; 5.50 south-east two and
a quarter miles. Total eighteen and a half miles.

April 24. Camp 55.

We left camp this morning 9.25 and travelled up the river for about
seventeen miles. We encamped 4.55 on the bank of a small creek. The
country we have seen from the path we have traversed, since leaving what
I thought was the Alice River, is very good with the exception of a few
patches of land too thickly wooded with western-wood acacia. The land
generally is thinly wooded with myall and well grassed with the best
grasses. We came from Camp 54 in about the following courses: 11.30 east
for five and three-quarter miles; 12.45, 1.20 south-east and by south for
one and a quarter miles; 4.20 east and by south for eight and a half
miles; 4.55 south for one and a half miles to camp. Distance seventeen
miles.

April 25. Camp 56.

We left Camp 55 this morning at 8.23. When we had journeyed for about
twenty miles we reached a creek, which I thought perhaps was a channel of
the Barcoo River, and encamped on the northern side of the left bank of
the creek. We came during the forenoon in nearly a south-east direction,
and during the afternoon about a point to the eastward of south. By the
latter course we crossed from the left to the right bank of the creek on