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undulating' forest land^ intersected by numerous 

 creeks and small rivers falling' considerably to the 

 westward, as in fact all the water had been 

 running- for some days past. Doubtless there must 

 be plenty of water in the holes and reaches of these 

 rivers and creeks at all seasons, but in the rainy 

 season many of them must be deep and rapid 

 streams, as the flood marks on the trees were from 

 fifteen to twenty feet hig-h. The river along' the 

 course of which we had been so long* travelling" 

 varied in width from two hundred to eig'ht hundred 

 3'ards. It has two, or, in some places, three distinct 

 channels, and in the flat country throug-h which 

 it passes these are divided by larg'e drooping* mela- 

 leucas. 



It is sing'ular that the country here should be so 

 destitute of g'ame 5 we had seen a few wallabies and 

 some ducks, but were seldom able to shoot any 

 of them y we had not seen more than four or five 

 emus altog'ether since we started; a few brown 

 hawks which we occasionally shot, Avere almost the 

 only addition we were enabled to make to our small 

 ration. To-day we g'ot an ig'uana and two ducks, 

 Avhich, with the water in which our mutton was 

 boiled, would have made us a g'ood pot of soup, had 

 there been anv substance in the mutton. Even 

 thin as it was, we were very g'lad to g'et it. The rivers 

 also seemed to contain but few fish, as we only 

 caug'ht a few of two diflerent kinds, one of which 

 A\ithout scales, resembled the cat-fish caug'ht near 



