April at Port Denison, and learned that Mr. Howitt had received
instructions to remain on Cooper's Creek for our arrival. Of course if I
had known there was a depot there I should have gone to it from the
Thomson River; and now I think it will be advisable to proceed to
Menindie and there take the most advisable mode of letting Howitt know of
our safe return from the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Wednesday June 5. Bunnawanah, Darling River.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and today we remained here to recruit the
horses. Mr. Rutherford, one of the proprietors of the neighbouring
station, kindly supplied us with what stores we required at a lower rate
than is charged anywhere; and at the station of Mr. T. Danger we got as
much beef as we required for the road en route to Menindie.

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NOTES.

Excoecaria: A good-sized bush or small tree occupying the low depressions
above the saline alluvial ground on the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is
milk-flowing but poisonous.

Erythrina: or coral tree.

Pigweed: Portulaca, or the native purslane, a creeping annual of a
reddish-green colour and an excellent vegetable.

Triodia: Sometimes called spinifex, or porcupine grass, is a true desert
plant, and at the end of each leaf it is so armed with short prickles