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Two more of our horses fell several times this 

 day ', one of them heing" very old^ and so weak that 

 we were ohHged to lift him up. We now made 

 up our minds for the first time^ to make our horses, 

 when too weak to travel^ available for food ; we 

 therefore killed him, and took meat enougli from 

 his carcass to serve our party for two days, and by 

 this means we saved a sheep. AVe boiled the heart, 

 liver, and a piece of the meat to serve us for our 

 breakfast next day. We camped in the evening- in 

 the midst of rocky, broken hills, covered with dwarf 

 shrubs and stunted g'um-trees; the soil in -vAhich 

 they g'rew appearing* more sandy than what we had 

 yet passed on this side of the rang-e. The shrubs 

 here were Dodoncea, Fahricia, Daviesiay Jacksonia, 

 and two or three dwarf species of acacia, one of which 

 was very showy, about three feet higli, with very 

 small, oblong-, sericeous phyllodia, and g-lobular heads 

 of brig'ht yellow flowers, produced in g'reat abun- 

 dance on axillary fascicles ; also a very fine leg'u- 

 minous shrub, bearing the habit and appearance of 

 Callistaclujs^ with fine terminal spikes of purple 

 decandrous flowers, with two small bracteae on the 

 foot-stalk of each flower, and with stipulate, oval, 

 lanceolate leaves, tomentose beneath, leg-umes small 

 and flattened, three to six seeded, with an arillus as 

 larg-e as the seed j these were flowering- from four 

 to twelve feet higli. There was plenty of grass in 

 the valleys of the creeks. To the S.W. on the hills 

 the grasses were JRestio, XeroteSy and a sphiy 



