IS'2 Kennedy's ExrEDiTioN. 



undulating' forest land^ intersected by numerous 

 creeks and small rivers falling* considerably to the 

 westward, as in fact all the water had been 

 running" for some days past. Doubtless there must 

 be plenty of water in the holes and reaches of these 

 rivers and creeks at all seasons, but in the rainy 

 season many of them must be deep and rapid 

 streams, as the flood marks on the trees were from 

 fifteen to tAventy feet hig-h. The river along' the 

 course of which Ave had been so lono' travellino- 

 varied in width from tAVO hundred to eio-ht hundred 

 yards. It has two, or, in some jilaces, three distinct 

 channels, and in the flat country throug-li which 

 it passes these are divided by larg-e drooping* mela- 

 leucas. 



It is sing'ular that the country here should be so 

 destitute of g'ame ; we had seen a few wallabies and 

 some ducks, but were seldom able to shoot any 

 of thenij Ave had not seen more than four or five 

 emus altog'ether since Ave started j a few broAvn 

 hawks Avhich Ave occasionally shot, Avere almost the 

 only addition Ave Avere enabled to make to our small 

 ration. To-day Ave g'ot an ig'uana and tAvo ducks, 

 Avhich, with the Avater in Avhich our mutton Avas 

 boiled, Avould have made us a g'ood pot of soup, had 

 there been any substance in the mutton. Even 

 thin as it Avas, Ave Avere very g'lad to g'et it. The rivers 

 also seemed to contain but fcAV fish, as Ave only 

 caug'ht a fcAV of two different kinds, one of Avhich 

 AAithout scales, resembled the cat-fish caught near 



