at 9.30 made half a mile south-south-west on left side of river over
plains; at 9.41 made half a mile south by west to where I waited for the
party, who came up at 9.45; at 10.5 made one mile south by west to where
we crossed a creek from north-east; at 10.24 made three-quarters of a
mile south by west; at 10.45 made one mile south to the left side of the
river; at 11 made three-quarters of a mile south-east by south along the
dry bed of the river, from which we started successive flights of
pigeons. At this place Mr. Campbell and party halted with the horses
while Mr. Allison and I went about a mile westward onto the plain, where
he made the altitude 86 degrees 30 minutes, which makes the latitude 20
degrees 6 minutes, agreeing with the latitude of my dead reckoning and
with an observation I made of a star last night; at 3 Jemmy, who had gone
down the river, returned without finding any water, except what was left
by the last thunderstorm; and as he told me I was following up a river,
and not down, I too hurriedly believed him, and made up my mind to return
to a waterhole that Fisherman had found to the right of our course in the
bed of the river. At the waterhole I found blacks, but, as I always avoid
them when I can, after I had a short interview with them we started down
the river to the water Jemmy had found, following along the right bank as
we had the left before; at 4.40 made two miles and three-quarters down
the river to where we crossed, near its junction, a river or a branch of
one from north-west; at 5.8 made one mile and a half back to where Mr.
Allison went on the plain to get an observation; at 5.20 made half a mile
south; at 5.40 made one mile south to where the river has two channels;
the one trending to the west of south we crossed, between the two
channels of the river; at 5.53 made half a mile south to where the left
channel of the river was full of water and fine grass on its banks, on
the right bank of which we formed our twenty-third camp, at the place
where Mr. Allison made an observation of the sun. The country is very
level and the watercourses are unconfined, and in times of floods the