FIRST EXPEDITION 483 



rhich has, again and again, been a fruitful cause of TROUBLE BETWEEN 



/KITES AND BLACKS. 



August 21. On leaving Camp 20, we travelled northward for 

 >out 2 miles to a low range which extends 3 miles further north, 

 is we did not cross the STARCKE, that river must flow to the north, 

 etween the " low range " and the range which we crossed by the 

 ap on the 2Oth August. There can be very little doubt that it 

 nters the sea between Red Point and Murdoch Point. [The 

 nailer " RUNNING STARCKE " falls into the sea between Murdoch 

 ad Lookout Points. Cook landed at and named Lookout Point, 

 oth August, 1770. R. L. J.] 



We then struck W. 36 N. (true) for a bold cliff of sandstone 

 apping the mountains on the left, distant about 6 miles. Our 

 ourse lay along the chord of a bay in the sandstone-capped range. 

 Tie country passed over was nearly level and timbered with blood- 

 r ood and box. with poplar gum and Moreton Bay ash in the 

 luvial bottoms. There were no creeks of any importance. One 

 lile short of the bluff, in crossing some protruding spurs of the 

 inge, we observed a large reef of poor, white, unpromising quartz. 



At this place we were under the necessity of ABANDONING to 

 er fate a piebald MARE, which had become incapable of keeping 

 p with the others. The black boys had walked by turns since 

 le morning, and the unfortunate beast had managed to keep 

 p with the rest for a time. Then the empty saddle was found 



be too great a burden, and was packed on another horse. But 

 itterly she was too weak to go on, even with one man leading her 

 y a halter and a black boy urging from behind. On weighing the 

 alue of our time,the distance we had to go, and the limited quantity 

 E our rations against the value of the animal, I had no hesitation 

 i leaving her behind. My first impulse was to shoot her, to prevent 

 er falling into the hands of the blacks and helping to spread 

 ic taste for horseflesh among the latter, but I let her go, on the 

 Drlorn chance of her recovering, and finding her way back to 

 ivilisation. 



The sandstone at the bluff rests on granite. I ascended a 

 our leading up to the sandstone, and took a series of bearings, 

 "here is a belt of good country at the base of the hill, about 



miles in breadth. No elevation of any consequence, except 

 md-hills, intervenes between the sandstone range and the coast. 



We kept the same course (W. 36 N.) over teatree (melaleuca) 

 idges (granite and slate with quartz) for 3 miles further, when 

 re obtained a view to the south up a large valley intersecting the 

 mdstone tableland. We then struck magnetic west (W. 6 N., 

 rue) and in I mile came on a large creek with numerous sandy 

 hannels a running stream 2 or 3 yards wide, and deep water-holes, 

 ^e creek [the JEANNIE RIVER of later maps. R. L. J.] had large 

 ^atrees growing in its bed, and presented a striking contrast to 



