148 JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY INTO 
of which were pools of good water, and in all of them good grass. 
Finding us resolved to proceed without them if they did not push on, 
our guides grumbled along at a somewhat better pace this day, and 
accomplished twenty-one and a half miles N.W. by N., halting at a 
small pool in a watercourse winding to the S.W., in latitude 33? 48' 2" 8. 
They called the place Gnow-yillup. 
On the 19th, being personally unwell, and quite unable either to 
walk or sit a horse, I did not move away until 4 p.m., when we made 
a short stage of five miles, and soon after sunset reached a deserted 
sheep station of Mr. J. Hassell's at Carralup, on the left bank of the 
Beaufort River. The grass here was extensive and tolerably good, and 
the water of the river fresh, in large pools thirty yards across, winding 
to the N.W» A cart arrived soon afterwards to remove the contents | 
of the hut, preparatory to Mr. Hassell transferring his principal station 
to the good country we had discovered on the 22nd of October, at 
Jeeramungup, on the Fitzgerald. This arrival from the haunts of 
civilized man put us in possession of various particulars relative to 
passing events in the colony, and made us acquainted, for the first time, 
with the result of Mr. A. Gregory's recent expedition towards Shark's 
Bay,—of his discovery of a lead vein on the Murchison River, —and 
of the Governor having been wounded by a native, on a visit subse- 
quently made to the spot. 
... Proceeding south-westward along a beaten road next day, over un- 
 dulating forest country covered with indifferent grass, at the end of 
seven miles we crossed another branch of the Beaufort in a soft dry 
bed seventy yards wide, filled with brushwood; and in four and a half 
miles more, reached another of Mr. Hassell's sheep stations, at a brackish 
ring called Warkelup, or Joseph's Well. Here the overseer was pre- 
ring to remove his flock also to the Fitzgerald, the country around 
having been extensively burnt by the natives, and the grass nearly all 
destroyed for the season. In four. miles W.N.W. from this station we 
reached Kojonup Barracks, and were met with every desire on the part 
of the small military party stationed there to render us any little ser- 
vice in their power. By five stars on the meridian, the mean latitude 
of the Kojonup Barracks was found to be 33° 49' 20” S., and two 
azimuths gave the magnetic variation 3° 48’ westerly. 
_ Remaining at our camp on Sunday, the 21st of January, I performed 
ivine service to our little party, according to the custom invariably 
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