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meat being* well dried by five o'clock in the after- 

 noon^ we sprinkled some salt upon it^ and put it in 

 bag's for the convenience of carrying-. We left one 

 of our round tents, and such other things as we 

 could possibly spare behind us at the camp, as our 

 horses were now so weak that they could not carry 

 loads. 



Oct. 17th and 18th. — Our travelling* was very 

 uneven, our horses giving' us continual trouble from 

 their frequent falls j we had a few narrow belts of 

 scrub to cut througii, but they were not very thick. 



Oct. 19th. — Several of our horses were now 

 quite unable to carry anything* but the saddle ; we 

 passed throug'h open forest land, with a lig'ht soil, 

 sub-soil clay, with isolated blocks of g*ranite rock 

 scattered about. We encamped by a rocky creek, 

 with water in holes only ; it ran westerly, and had 

 fresh gTeen feed on each side, the grass having* been 

 burned shortly before, and now g'rowing* up ag'ain. 



Oct. '20th. — We passed over a piece of stiff 

 ground about two miles in extent, which appeared 

 to have been the scene of a devastating* hurricane. 

 It was covered with fallen timber, which rendered 

 it very difficult to cross. The wind must have 

 swept from the south-west to the north-east, and 

 from the appearance of the sapling's which were 

 growing* from the stumps of some of the trees 

 which had been broken, this terrific storm appeared 

 to have taken place about two years ago. Not a 

 tree had been left standing* in the part where we 



