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In I mile further we passed a tree marked with a broad arrow 

 over 120, on the right-hand side of the road, by the edge of a 

 chain of lagoons. 



In half a mile more Macdonald brought down an EMU with 

 the Snider on a large open plain. It supplied the camp with fresh 

 meat for three days. 



Two miles further we passed a large lagoon on the left. In 

 2 miles more a lagoon abounding in white geese and pelicans 

 was passed on the right side of the road in a wide open plain. 



In 2$ miles we reached the Kennedy River running north and 

 camped on its right bank. [Grainer said it was called the Kennedy 

 by the travelling diggers on the Coen rush. It is what now appears 

 on the maps as the " North Kennedy," but ought to bear the name 

 cf Therrimburi Creek, by which its principal head is known. It 

 lies west, not north, of the Kennedy River, and there are " Kennedy 

 Rivers " enough to lead to confusion. R. L. J.] 



From the emu plain to the Kennedy [i.e., the so-called " North 

 Kennedy " or Therrimburi Creek. R. L. J.] the country is alter- 

 nately open forest and unwooded plains. The timber is well 

 grown, and chiefly consists of bloodwood, with a sprinkling of box 

 and Moreton Bay ash. The plains are studded with GIGANTIC 

 white ANT-HILLS, and look like graveyards. The boys killed a 

 large carpet snake at the camp. 



The Kennedy [the so-called " North Kennedy " or Therrimburi 

 Creek. R. L. J.] is a most disappointing river. It is difficult to 

 realise that this insignificant dribble of water is the river named 

 after the unfortunate explorer who followed its course five-and- 

 thirty years ago. [As a matter of fact, it is not the same river. 

 R. L. J.] It has a single narrow channel with a rivulet meander- 

 ing through it, and has no scrub on its banks. A single large tea- 

 tree overhangs the right bank and bridges the stream across. The 

 stream is three times as large 50 miles higher up at the Cooktown 

 and Palmerville road. 



Observations of Vega and Arided made the latitude of this 

 camp 14 33' 9" S. (CAMP 31, Kennedy River: Moreton Bay 

 ash, J. 3/9/ l8 79-) 



September 4. Left Camp 31, the track still keeping north-west 

 (magnetic). A quarter of a mile from the Kennedy [Therrimburi 

 Creek. R. L. J.] we crossed an anabranch or tributary nearly as 

 large as the river itself, but dried up to water- holes. Its junction 

 with the river was visible from the track. 



Two miles from the Kennedy [Therrimburi Creek], we crossed 

 the bed of a large river, with several channels, running north-north- 

 west, but dried up to water-holes. This stream has a rocky bottom 

 (recent " cement-conglomerate "). It has no banks to speak of, 

 its bed being only 3 or 4 feet below the level of the surrounding 

 country. I fancy this must be the river named the " HANN " 



