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hood, watching every chance to pilfer, or prowl about our camp 

 at night." 



Rain on the following day (22nd October) kept the party from 

 travelling, and the day's " spell " was good for the horses. 



On 2$rd October, the valley of the LAURA was followed down 

 for 2$ miles. On the river turning to the west (with precipitous 

 SANDSTONE HILLS on both sides), the party turned south-west and, 

 after travelling for 7 miles over SANDSTONE AND CONGLOMERATE, 

 camped on a little water- hole. CAMP 71. 



On 2\th October, the party marched n miles to WNW., when 

 they came on a large river. This was the MOSMAN RIVER, which 

 falls into the LAURA RIVER, 8 miles to the north-east, at what is 

 now the terminus of the COOKTOWN-LAURA RAILWAY. Hann 

 now came to the conclusion that all the waters he had followed or 

 crossed between his 67th camp and the Mosman belonged to the 

 NORMANBY, and not to the Kennedy, to which he had been assigning 

 them. THE MOUTHS OF THE NORMANBY AND KENNEDY, as already 

 pointed out, ANASTOMOSE ; but their upper valleys are distinct, 

 and Hann had arrived at the truth in his latest surmise. 



Having crossed the MOSMAN, a march of 8 miles brought the 

 party to " a large running creek, with fine feed for the horses." 

 This was the LITTLE LAURA, which falls into the Laura 10 miles 

 north of the present railway terminus. CAMP 72, which was in 

 sandstone country, was probably on the left bank. 



On 25 th October, the course for the first 6 miles was a little to 

 the south of west, when a SANDSTONE CLIFF forced the party 2 miles 

 to the north. A narrow gap in the cliff was at length found, and 

 by this the horses made the ascent with great difficulty and danger. 

 On the top of the sandstone, the head of a creek was found and 

 followed to the west for 6 miles to CAMP 73. This creek was the 

 head of the ST. GEORGE RIVER, which joins the Kennedy River, 

 de facto, above the " Kennedy Bend," the terminus of my first, 

 and starting- place of my second, expedition in 1879. 



On 26th October, the ST. GEORGE'S RIVER was followed westward 

 for 7$ miles to CAMP 74, at its junction with the LITTLE KENNEDY 

 RIVER, where at the present day the road and telegraph line run 

 southward to Palmerville. 



To solve their doubts as to whether or not they had now crossed 

 the divide into western waters, Hann and Taylor ascended a hill 

 near the camp, and the latter recognised, on looking southward, 

 some remembered features of the Palmer. They concluded there- 

 fore that they were still on eastern waters, and that Camp 74 was 

 on the KENNEDY. It was, in fact, on an eastern head of the RIVER 

 NAMED IN HONOUR OF KENNEDY. A tributary valley was seen 

 coming from the south towards the camp. 



Up the creek which forms the tributary valley, and to which 

 the name of the LITTLE KENNEDY RIVER is now applied, Hann and 



