192 Kennedy's expedition. 



veiling- over sandy ridg'es covered with Evgcnia, 

 Uxocaryvs, and a very pretty Eucalyptus, with 

 rose-coloured flowers and obcordate leaves, and 

 yellow soft bark; also a dwarfish tree wdth dark 

 green leaves, and axillary racemes of round mono- 

 spermons, fruit of a purple colour, with a thin rind 

 of a bitter flavour ; also a great many trees of 

 moderate size, from fifteen to twenty feet hig-h, of 

 rather pendulous habit, oval lanceolate exstipulnte 

 leaves, loaded with an oblong- 3'ellow fruit, having- 

 a roug'h stone inside; the part covering- the stone 

 has, when ripe, a mealy appearance, and very g-ood 

 flavour. I considered from its oppearance it was the 

 fruit which Leichhardt called the " nonda," which 

 we always afterwards called it ; we all ate plentifully 

 of it. 



The weather for the last few days had been very 

 hot, the thermometer ranging- in the shade from 95" 

 to 100" at noon ) still there was generally a breeze 

 in the morning- from the eastward, and in the 

 evening- from the west. We camped by the same 

 creek as on the previous day, but in our present 

 position it was running- S.AV. with several lagoons 

 in the valle}^, full of Nymplicea and Villarsia ; our 

 latitude here was 15" 33' south. 



Sept. 24:th. — We crossed the creek and proceeded 

 northward, till we camped by a dry creek, from the 

 bed of which we obtained water by dio-o-ino-. Dur- 



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ing the day's journey, we passed over some flats of 

 rotten honeycomb ground, on which nothing- was 



