Sunday January 5. Camp 29.

Started at 8 a.m. and went along the edge of the river which was very
confined; so much so that the horses had at one place to be led.
Accompanied by Fisherman I left the party and went a few hundred yards
ahead to a creek full of water to widen with a pick a path up the creek.
While I was doing so Mr. Campbell reported that some of the horses had
gone into the river of their own accord, and one of them was drowned
although Jemmy and he had swum to its assistance. On hearing of this
misfortune I came down to the river, got the two troopers to go and dive
where the mare had disappeared, and they managed to get its saddle and
pack on shore. Fisherman, while the things were being dried, marked the
tree on the point at the junction of the watercourse with the river. The
former I have named Harris Creek. At 11.56 started again at point where
the tree is marked, say half a mile from camp; at 12.2 made half a mile
south-south-east from river up the creek, where we crossed after a delay
of eight minutes; at 12.33 made three-quarters of a mile north to where
we crossed the river; at 1.2 made one mile north down the river; at 1.27
made three-quarters of a mile north-east by north to where we formed our
Number 30 Camp, where the river is apparently often badly watered. At
this part of the river even now it is without a running stream although
recently flooded, and there is an absence of the pandanus, cabbage, and
tall drooping tea-trees which crowded the bed of the river higher up and
are fine signs of the permanence of the water.

Monday January 6. Camp 30.

Started from camp which is situated on left bank of O'Shanassy River at
6.52. At 7.8 made half a mile north-north-east down the left bank of the