192 Kennedy's expedition. 



veiling' over sandy ridg'es covered with Eugenia.) 

 Exocarpus, and a very pretty Eucalyptus, with 

 rose-coloured Howers and obcordate leaves^ and 

 yellow soft bark; also a dwarfish tree with dark 

 green leaves, and axillary racemes of round mono- 

 spermons, fruit of a purple colour^ with a thin rind 

 of a bitter flavour ; also a g-reat many trees of 

 moderate size, from fifteen to twenty feet hig'h, of 

 rather pendulous habit, oval lanceolate exstipulate 

 leaves, loaded with an oblong* j'ellow fruit, having* 

 a roug'h stone inside; the part covering* the stone 

 has, when ripe, a mealy appearance, and very g-ood 

 flavour. I considered from its appearance it was the 

 fruit which Leichhardt called the " nonda," which 

 we always afterwards called it ; we all ate plentifully 

 of it. 



The weather for the last few da3^s had been very 

 hot, the thermometer rano'ino- in the shade from 95" 

 to 100" at noon ; still there was g'enerally a breeze 

 in the morning- from the eastward, and in the 

 evening' from the west. We camped by the same 

 creek as on the previous day, but in our present 

 position it was runnuig- S.W. with several lag'oons 

 in the valley, full of Nymph(Ba and Villarsia ; our 

 latitude here was 15" 33' south. 



Sept. 24:th. — We crossed the creek and proceeded 

 northward, till we camped by a dry creek, from the 

 bed of ^^hich we obtained water b}^ dig'g'ing*. Dur- 

 ing* the day's journey, we passed over some flats of 

 rotten honeycomb g'round, on which nothing* was 



