Monday November 18.

From the Post-office Lagoon we went one and a half miles west, thence
over fine downs, chiefly wooded with acacia, two and a half miles
south-west, and reached a pond on the left bank of Beames Brook, near
which we had a dinner of young wood from a cabbage-palm-tree which
Fisherman felled near the steep bank of the running stream, at which
place we marked a tree (broad arrow before L) and likewise marked in the
same way a more conspicuous tree which stands a little further out from
the brook; thence eight miles south-west, over fine rich plains with a
good variety of grass upon them, and a few plants of saline herbs. It was
then time to encamp, as we had been travelling for five hours; we
therefore changed our course to north-west for three-quarters of a mile,
and reached a branch of the Nicholson River consisting of at least four
channels, one full of fine clear running water, on the right bank of
which we formed our Number 3 Camp.

Tuesday November 19. Camp Number 3.

The channels are shaded by drooping tea-trees, swamp-oaks, etc. As it was
unnamed on the charts I gave it the name of Gregory River. Some blacks
came up and watched the camp while we were packing. We started up the
river at 8.45 a.m.; we followed the right bank of the watercourse in a
south-south-west direction. At 9.50 we reached a fine point for a station
for stock, about two and a quarter miles by the river from camp, the
first mile and a half of which was in a south-south-west, and the last
three-quarters of a mile in a south by east direction. We could not cross
the river easily, so we kept on the right bank. At 10.20 we reached a
point on the riverbank half a mile south-west from the last. At 10.35 we
made half a mile south. At 10.45, steering south-west by south half a