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Cay asli, and a tree beloiiii'ino: to the natural order 

 Lcguminos(s, with axillary racemes of white apeta- 

 lous flowers, ^ong-, broad, flat, many seeded leg'umes, 

 larg'e, bipinnate leaves, leaflets oval, one inch long-^ 

 — and having' dark fissm'ed bark ; on the flat stiff soil 

 g-rew iron-bark, apple-tree, and another species of 

 Angopliora, with long- lanceolate leaves, seed vessels 

 as larg-e as the eg*g' of a common fowl, and a smooth 

 3"ellow bark. 



Aug. 27th. — This day being* Sunday we had 

 pra^'-ers at eleven o'clock. We saved the blood of 

 the sheep we had killed for to-day's food, and 

 having- cut up the heart, liver, and kidne^'^s, we mixed 

 it all with a little flour and boiled it for breakfast. 

 By this means we made some small saving", and it 

 was a dish that we were very fond of. We saved 

 all the wool that we could g-et from our sheep, for 

 the purpose of stuffing* our saddles, a process which 

 was frequently required, owing* to the poor condition 

 of our horses. 



Aug. 2Sth. — ^We started early this morning*, but 

 had not travelled far when one of our horses fell 

 from weakness; we placed him on his leg's four 

 times during* the day, but finding* the poor animal 

 could not walk, we shot him and took sufiicient 

 meat from him with us to last for two days. After 

 making but a short stag-e, over iron-stone ridg*es, 

 covered with string*y-bark, and loamy flats, producing 

 Melaleucas and Grevilleas, we camped beside a 

 small creek, in the sandy bed of which there was npr^^'^-V'TT-^, 



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