This being Sunday we rested ourselves and our horses. Yesterday I
discovered that I had not repaired my sextant in a satisfactory manner.
The index showed it to be easily put out of adjustment. I made the
meridian altitude of the sun today A.H. 102 degrees 26 minutes; latitude
24 degrees 43 minutes.

April 28, Monday. Camp 58.

The greater part of the forenoon was spent in collecting the horses. We
left Camp 57 at 12.35 p.m. When we had proceeded up the western bank of
the creek (the side on which we had encamped) for about three-quarters of
a mile we crossed it and left it as it became evident that its sources
were in the hills to the right of the course we wanted to pursue. After
proceeding about six and a quarter miles from the creek in an easterly
course over low undulating ridges we saw two emus, which remained in our
vicinity for some time but not sufficiently near to induce any of us to
try and shoot them. Half a mile from this brought us in a south-east
direction to a well-watered creek which we followed up for some distance,
but as it took us in a south-west direction we returned and followed it
down. This took us in a north-east direction. When we had come down the
creek about three miles, reckoning from the place we first struck it, we
encamped. The ground near here is flat and intersected by watercourses,
so much so that it is like a kind of country that is often found in flat
country near a river. The land we saw today is rich and well-grassed,
seemingly as good sheep country as any I have seen. We came here in the
following courses from last camp: 12.53 south for three-quarters of a
mile; 3 east six and a half miles; 3.10 south-east half a mile; 4.50
north-east one and a half miles down the creek; 5.15 north-east and by
east one mile; 5.20 north-north-east half a mile. Total ten and a half
miles. Near last camp I made today the meridian altitude of the sun 101