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corresponds to Bunce’s Creek and Frederick’s Creek, which most 
probably join before meeting the Balonne. Six miles below, and 
two miles above this creek, tltey saw trees marked with an H. 
Sixteen miles beyond, a third large creek joins the Balonne, this 
was supposed to be the Yahoo; twelve miles above this they 
passed the junction of the Horsetrack River, and twenty-five to 
thirty miles higher, were again at the junction of Sandy Creek. 
Between these two rivers, about eight to ten miles below Sandy 
Creek, Mr. Bunce and Woommai had observed the junction of a 
large creek from the left side, and Dr. Leichhardt supposes that 
this is the Condamine, which has been followed down to its junc- 
tion with Dogwood Creek. They followed Dogwood Creek up to lat. 
26? 56', crossed it, and travelled about eleven miles E. by N., when 
they came on one of its bends to the southward in lat. 26? 53’, 
in a fine open country. In continuing the course E. by N. they 
passed over some very fine country and came to the Condamine 
on a very remarkable bend, below which they found the letter B 
marked on a tree. Three miles higher up the river they camped 
in 26° 49’. Nine miles further to the east they came again to the 
river, which had made a large bend to the northward ; they crossed 
it, continued about seven miles to the eastward, and approached 
the river a second time. They had just encamped, when Woom- 
mai heard the neighing of a horse; a gun was immediately fired, 
which was answered by the crack of a stock whip, and shortly 
afterwards Mr. Ewer came up to the party, and gave them the 
agreeable intelligence that they were near his station. 
On Dr. Leichhardt’s return to Sydney, Captain Perry kindly 
permitted him to inspect Sir T. Mitchell’s map, of which he says : 
* His Fitz Roy Downs commence about ten or fifteen miles 
above the place where I crossed the Colgoon. He could not have 
seen the river Balonne to the east of his Grafton Range, when 
he was standing on Mount Abundance; it was very probably 
Bunce’s Creek. I am inclined to believe that similar patches of 
open country exist at the head of Bunce's Creek, Frederick's 
Creek, Yahoo River, Horse-track River, and perhaps even of 
Sandy Creek, but I do not think that they form an uninterrupted 
