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now very much withered, and throug-h belts of dwarf 

 bushy Melaleucas and Banksias. We were not far 

 from Princess Charlotte's Bay^ Jane's Table Land 

 being- in sig-ht. We came to the side of a salt 

 lag'oon, very nearly dry ', we found it covered with 

 salt, of which we took about 20 lbs., which was as 

 much as we could carry, but even this was a very 

 seasonable help ; we rubbed about two pounds of it 

 into our meat. We encamped by a small creek, but 

 the water was brackish, and not being- able to find 

 any other we were obliged to make use of it. One 

 of our horses was slig'htly hurt by the stump of a 

 mang-rove tree. All we g"ot from the horse we last 

 killed was sixty-five pounds of meat. 



Oct. 5th and Qth. — We travelled over sandy soil, 

 but with little g-rass, meeting- frequently with salt 

 lag'oons, surrounded by various salsolaceous plants. 

 Near the edg'e of a salt water creek we found a 

 native camp, composed of about seven or eig-ht huts, 

 curiously and neatly built of a conical form j all 

 were nearly of the same size, about five and a half 

 feet in diameter at the base, and six and a half feet 

 hig'h. They were made by placing- sapling's in the 

 g-round in a slanting- position, which were tied 

 tog-ether at the top and woven inside like wicker 

 work, with strips of small bamboo canes. The 

 whole was then covered with palm leaves, over 

 which wns a coating- of tea-tree bark, very neatly 

 fastened b}^ strips of cane. They were substantially 

 built, and A\ouid no doubt keep out the wet effec- 



