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flooded-gum trees, and abundance of grass in the valley." The 

 march was difficult, one HORSE falling into a gully, to DIE next day, 

 thus leaving only twenty. The position of this CAMP is given as 

 17 30' S. and 145 12' E., and if this is correct the camp would be 

 down the valley a little below the GLEN LINEDALE tin mines, 

 Glen Linedale being one of the heads of EMU CREEK, which falls 

 into the Walsh River. 



A halt on Saturday, iqth August, was substituted for the 

 usual Sunday halt, and the journey was resumed on the 20th. 

 The expedition moved on to the north-west during that and the 

 three following days, camping on the 2yd by " a creek running 

 to the westward, with rather a broad bed and steep banks of strong 

 clay." The country traversed during the four days, in the valley 

 of Emu Creek, was undulating forest land, with red ant-hills, up 

 to 10 feet in height, on the sandy flats. About midway between 

 the CAMPS of the iStb and 23^, the expedition's track is now 

 crossed by the CHILLAGOE RAILWAY east of LAPPA LAPPA JUNCTION. 

 The district traversed between these two points is now thickly 

 studded with tin, copper and silver mines. The creek on which 

 the CAMP was pitched on 2yd August was the WALSH RIVER, about 

 three miles below the mouth of Eureka Creek. 



When the party approached the camp, about a score of NATIVES 

 made a friendly visit and were presented with fish-hooks and a tin 

 plate. 



The camp having been pitched, Goddard and Jackey-Jackey 

 went out to shoot wallabies for the pot. They parted at a hill, 

 which they agreed to round in different directions, and meet. 

 GODDARD, however, got LOST and did not reach the camp till late 

 next day, after the party had searched anxiously for him. Only 

 a short stage to the north-west was made that day (24^ August), 

 owing to the late start. The march was probably continued north- 

 ward on the 2$th and 26th. Carron does not give the direction 

 in which the party travelled ; but it was probably north, as they 

 wished to go in that direction, and that it was possible to do so 

 was proved by Mulligan in 1874 (6th to 9th September). Carron 

 mentions only that three or four of the party suffered severely 

 from eating figs. It is now known that these native figs can be 

 made more wholesome by a period of burial, this method being 

 practised by the blacks. (MULLIGAN'S CAMP of 8th September, 

 1874, west of WOLFRAM CAMP, was probably on KENNEDY'S foot- 

 steps of 25th August, 1848.) 



27^ August (Sunday). Prayers at eleven. Carron refers to 

 the " poor condition of the horses," saying that the wool from 

 slaughtered sheep was carefully saved to stuff saddles. 



2%th August. During this day's (presumably northward) march, 

 a HORSE, too weak to travel, was SHOT, and the meat saved for 

 consumption. (This left nineteen.) Only a short distance was 



