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November 28. Travelled (22 miles) from the Normanby to 

 the WELCOME WATER-HOLES. On the way I tried once more 

 to discover the f ossilif erous locality in the BATTLE CAMP Tableland, 

 with much toil but no success. I climbed up five separate gullies, 

 one of them being that which was indicated to me by Mr. A. C. 

 Macmillan viz., the first beyond Battle Camp. 



November 29. Welcome Water-holes to LAURA TELEGRAPH 

 STATION (13 miles). The 3Oth being Sunday, we spelled the horses 

 and wrote letters. Here we got two kangaroo dogs, one from 

 the native police and one from Mr. H. R. Jones. 



December I. Travelled from the Laura Telegraph Station 1 

 to a gully 2 miles east of CARTER'S GRAVE (18 miles). There had 

 been rain here lately and the grass was lovely. 



December 2. Came on to the KENNEDY BEND (9 miles) and 

 camped on the left bank of the river. (Latitude, by observation 

 of Canopus, 15 34' S.) 



December 3. We LEFT THE PALMERVILLE ROAD in the morning 

 and travelled up the left bank of the river, by an old road, till we 

 had reached the south end of the sandstone range, about 2 miles 

 south of our return track of the previous trip (SW. I mile, WNW. 

 2 miles, NW. f mile, W. ^ mile, to the point where we struck the 

 old road on the previous trip, and 2 miles S. 10 W. to the end of 

 the range). My intention was that the party should strike the 

 Peach River at or below the Geikie Range, a course which would 

 take us through new country to the west of my old track and give 

 us an additional chance of success, should the Geikie Range prove 

 auriferous. 



In 6 miles NW. (true) we crossed a creek of the fourth magnitude, 

 with a chain of lily-covered water-holes. This, I have no doubt, 

 is the same chain of " lily water-holes " which we passed 2 miles 

 NW. of Camp 50 on our last homeward route. [" THERRIMBURI 

 CREEK," of the modern 4-mile map. R. L. J.] 



From the lily water-holes we held our course W. 30 N. (true) 

 for 10 miles, and saw no more water till we found some in holes in 

 a narrow bottom which we had followed down for 2 miles. 

 We camped on the left bank. The night was too cloudy for obser- 

 vations (CAMP i). [This appears to have been WANGOW CREEK, 

 one of the heads of the HANN RIVER. The camp was probably 

 in the vicinity of KENNEDY'S CAMP of 23rd September, 1848. 

 R. L. J.] 



The country traversed this day was soft and sandy and very 

 gently undulating. The sand was for the most part white, being 

 derived from the decomposition of white sandstone. 



December 4. In half a mile down the hollow on which we had 

 camped, we came to a deep (but not running) creek of the third 

 magnitude falling to the north, doubtless the same that we had 



1 There is now a railway from Cooktown to the Laura. R. L. J. 



