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THALIA CREEK and the " TIDAL RIVER," I take it, must be mouths, 

 perhaps the most important mouths, of the KENDALL RIVER, de 

 jacto, which was run down by Mr. Embley in February, 1886, as 

 far west as the I42nd meridian of east longitude. This Kendall 

 River, dejacto, according to Mr. Embley, is the most considerable 

 water-course in the district, but I am of opinion that he was 

 mistaken in identifying it with the water-course to which Jardine 

 gave the name of KENDALL CREEK. 



Ten head of CATTLE had been MISSING when Frank Jardine left 

 Camp 54, and as they had not been recovered, he determined on 

 his return to Camp 55, to wait there while they were searched for. 

 The search proved fruitless, and " as it would have been madness 

 to have remained longer in such dangerous country," the cattle 

 were finally left behind. " The country," says Byerley, " was 

 all alike, and they were satisfied beyond doubt that it must be 

 ONE SEA DURING THE RAINS." On the night of the 30^, the camp 

 was visited by a rain-and-wind STORM of unusual severity. 



On 31 st December, the distance travelled from Camp 55 was 

 estimated at 12 miles on a general course of ENE.i-E. Two 

 miles from Camp 55, a CREEK was met with, 50 yards wide, with 

 steep banks and water 3 feet deep. (QUEENSLAND 4-MiLE MAP, 

 SHEET 20 D.) It was named KENDALL CREEK, 1 after a friend of 

 Richardson's, although Frank Jardine seems to have considered 

 it identical with a creek further to the west which he had seen the 

 day before, and which he named the MACLEOD. 



Richardson's Kendall Creek was followed up for 3 miles 

 to the east before it could be forded, and the journey could be 

 continued on the desired course of NNE.-J-E. 



As plotted from Richardson's narrative, his Kendall Creek 

 practically coincides with what appears on the modern map as 

 " SINCLAIR CREEK, G 52-4." This SINCLAIR CREEK, de Jacto, has 

 apparently been named on a mistaken identification with the 

 creek so named by Jardine (SINCLAIR CREEK, de jure), which is 

 further north. 



The remainder of the journey of 3ist December (5 miles 

 NNE.-J-E.) was on bloodwood and stringybark forest country 

 alternating with tea-tree flats. The latter were now bogs, owing 

 to the rains. CAMP 56 was on the left, or southern, bank of the 

 KENDALL, de jure (SINCLAIR, dejacto). 



What must be called the KENDALL RIVER, dejacto (see south- 

 east corner of Sheet 20 D and north side of Sheet 20 B of Queensland 

 4- mile Map), has been surveyed by Mr. Embley, in 1886, as far down 

 as the western boundaries of " Dunning " and " Lockton " runs 

 (142 E. long.). From this point, the supposed seaward course 



1 In 1879-80 I believed the " Coen " (South Coen) of the Goldfield to be the head 

 of what Richardson had named Kendall Creek. In this I was mistaken, as the South 

 Coen has since been ascertained to be a tributary of the Archer River. 



