May 2. Camp 61.

Jackey and Jemmy spent as usual the greater part of the forenoon in
mustering the horses. We left camp 60 at 10.20 this morning and came
twelve and a half miles in a south-east direction. The four miles we
followed the creek up from our last camp took us more easterly than
southerly. After leaving the creek we crossed a low scrubby sandstone
range and got to the head of a watercourse in which we found water on
following it down to a short distance. The country we saw today was very
scrubby with the exception of some thinly wooded patches near the creek
we left. The scrub consisted of mulga with a few other trees. Amongst
these I observed broad-leaved ironbark and broad-leaved box, bloodwood,
currajong, and bottle-trees. The broad-leaved box-trees we had not seen
previously on this expedition. The ironbark-trees are seldom or never
found far to the southward of the main range. The soil consisted chiefly
at several places of stiff clay which retains an impression a long time
when softened by rain. We observed the dray-tracks Jemmy had seen
yesterday about three and a quarter miles on this side of our last camp.
Near to where Jemmy had found the water and the dray-track I made the
meridian altitude of the sun A.H. 98degrees 43 minutes; the latitude is
by that observation 25 degrees 7 minutes. We came here from last camp in
about the following courses: 11.30 east-south-east for three and a
quarter miles up the creek of 60 camp; 12.20, 12.55 east-south-east half
a mile; 3.30 south-east seven and a half miles to the head of the
watercourse; 3.50 south three-quarters of a mile down watercourse; 3.38
east quarter of a mile; total twelve and a half miles.

May 3.