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Sydney ;* the Other was a dark thick fish with 

 scales. 



Sept. 10th. — Finding* that the river continued 

 running- to the westward^ and not as we had hoped 

 toA^'ards Princess Charlotte's Bay, we left it and 

 turned in a northerly direction, travelling' over very 

 rocky ridg-es covered Avith cochlospermums and aca- 

 cias, interspersed with occasional patches of open 

 forest land, and strewed with isolated blocks of 

 coarse g-ranite containing* crj^stals of quartz and 

 laminie of white mica. Prayers as usual at eleven 

 o'clock. 



We had not seen natives for several days, but 

 this nig'ht, whilst one of the party was keeping* 

 watch, a short distance from the fire, about eleven 

 o'clock, he heard the chattering* of the blacks. 

 Three spears were almost immediately thrown into 

 the camp and fell near the fire, but fortunately 

 without injuring* any of the part}^ We fired a few 

 shots in the direction from which the spears came j 

 the nig'ht being* so dark that we could not see them. 

 We entertained fears that some of om* horses mig'ht 

 be speared, as they were at some dist*ance from the 

 camp, but fortunately the blacks offered us no 

 further molestation. 



SejJt. 11th and 12th. — We pursued our northern 



course, the g'round becoming' very rotten; by the 



sides of small creeks in sandy flats were belts of 



broad-leafed Melaleucas and Grevilleas. We met 



* Plotosus macrocejphalus. 



