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Sydney j* the other was a dark thick fish with 

 scales. 



Sept. 10th. — Finding* that the river continued 

 running* to the westward, and not as we had hoped 

 towards Princess Charlotte's Bay, we left it and 

 turned in a northerly direction, travelling* over very 

 rocky ridg*es covered with cochlospermums and aca- 

 cias, interspersed with occasional patches of open 

 forest land, and strewed with isolated blocks of 

 coarse granite containing* crystals of quartz and 

 laminae of white mica. Prayers as usual at eleven 

 o'clock. 



We had not seen natives for several days, but 

 this nig-ht, whilst one of the party was keeping* 

 watch, a short distance from the fire, about eleven 

 o'clock, he heard the chattering* of the blacks. 

 Three spears were almost immediately thrown into 

 the camp and fell near the fire, but fortunately 

 without injuring* any of the party. We fired a few 

 shots in the direction from which the spears came ; 

 the niofht beino* so dark that we could not see them. 

 We entertained fears that some of our horses mig-ht 

 be speared, as they were at some distance from the 

 camp, but fortunately the blacks offered us no 

 further molestation. 



Sept. 11th and 12th. — We pursued our northern 

 course, the g*round becoming* very rotten; by the 

 sides of small creeks in sandy flats were belts of 

 broad-leafed Mdalcucas and Grcvilleas. We met 



* Plotosus macrocephalus. ^ 



