150 Kennedy's expedition. 



pinnate leaves^ and axillary racemes of a roinid 

 flattened fruity similar in size and shape to the small 

 blue fig- cultivated in gardens^ of a dark purple 

 colour^ and possessing* a flavour similar to an 

 Orleans plum when hardly ripe^ with a hard roug-h 

 stone inside. 



June 27th. — We proceeded about five miles in a 

 westerty . direction^ passing* over two small creeks 

 running* to the south-east. The country here ap- 

 peared to be gradually rising*^ and the land to be 

 g*rowing* drier • and we now hoped to be enabled to 

 prosecute our journey without any g-reat obstruction 

 from the swamps. 



June 28th. — Proceeding* on the same course as 

 on the previous day, we crossed two small creeks, 

 running rapidly to the eastward. The bottoms of 

 these creeks were covered with granite pebbles, of 

 various sizes. The first creek we crossed at the 

 entrance, and the other near the middle of a thick 

 scrub, extending* nearly three miles, and through 

 which we had to cut a road. The various plants of 

 which this scrub was composed corresponded with 

 those described as forming* the scrub near our first 

 camp in the ^ay. The greatest obstacles to our 

 progress through these scrubs were the long shoots 

 of the Flagellariay and climbing* palm. We camped 

 in an open patch of forest land, covered with grass, 

 and the trees consisted principally of Moreton Bay 

 ash (a species of eucalyptus), Casuarinay and a 

 rather large growing Acacia, with broad, rhom- 



