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Two more of our horses fell several times this 

 day j one of them being* very old^ and so weak that 

 we were obliged 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 enoug-h from 

 his carcass to serve our party for two da3'S^ and by 

 this means we saved a sheep. We boiled the hearty 

 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 which 

 they gTew appearing' more sandy than what we had 

 yet passed on this side of the range. The shrubs 

 here were DodoncEa, Fahricia, Daviesiay Jacksoma, 

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

 was very show}^^ about three feet hig'h^ 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 

 CalUstachijS, with fine terminal spikes of purple 

 decandrous flowers, with two small bractete on the 

 foot-stalk of each flower, and Avith 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 hig-h. There was plenty of g-rass in 

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

 the g-rasses were Mesfio, Xerotes, and a spiny 



