point a considerable distance up its course. At 1 p.m. we returned to the
point, which is one mile and three-quarters south-south-west from the
camp we left in the morning. At 1.30 we made east-south-east, past the
little table hill to a beautiful valley of the richest soil, but now
without water, and all the grass parched up, at which point Mount Kay
bore north-north-west, about one mile distant. We then searched for the
river we expected to find coming from the southward, and found it by
following down the river north-east for one mile and a half below Mount
Kay, where we marked a tree--broad arrow before L. We then followed the
river up for half a mile and observed that it was running. It does not
join at the place which we the previous day thought was the junction of a
river. Just above the junction there is a scrub of large fig-trees, on
which there were a great number of flying foxes. There is a hill on the
right bank of the river, just above its junction with the Gregory, which
I named Smith's Range. In returning I observed at a point one mile and
three-quarters south-south-west from the camp remarkable hills on both
sides of the Gregory River, about half a mile above the junction with the
O'Shanassy, which I have named the Prior Ranges. At 4.48 we returned to a
point opposite Mount Kay. At 5.26 made two miles up the river to where
there are remarkable bluff hills on both sides of the river (the lower
hills of the gorge). At 5.50 we observed that we had passed the camp and,
as the river is difficult to cross even at its best fords, we went to the
camp ford, which the horses knew, as we had crossed there in the morning.
Having made camp at 6.35, at dark we made one mile and three-quarters
west, slightly southerly to the hill at the gorge, on the track of the
main party. Further than that Fisherman would not follow this track in
the dark, as it went over a basaltic rocky range. This was a bad camp for
us, the grass so parched up that the horses could not get any worth
eating, and we had nothing to eat ourselves. I was stung by a reptile,
probably a scorpion. The pain it gave was sufficient to make me very