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was getting very weak. Crosbie and Layland went out to the west 

 about 3 miles. 



March 24. There was heavy RAIN before daybreak. On 

 leaving Camp 65, we held W. 10 N. for 3i miles, the first 2 miles 

 being through closely timbered and well-grassed country, just 

 below the divide ; the rest HEATHY or covered with wire grass, 

 with PITCHER-PLANT BOGS falling to the left. One of these, at 

 3i miles from the camp, ran us about a mile to the north. 1 I LEFT 

 " POODLE " at one end of this bog, and Crosbie had to ABANDON 

 one of his horses (" PADDY ") at the other end. 



In 2f miles further, through poor country with oaks and wire 

 grass, we passed a belt of scrub, and on finding some better grass 

 on the banks of a boggy gully falling to the south-west, we camped. 

 (CAMP 66.) 



March 25. The night was fine till about an hour before day- 

 break, when RAIN began. The rain continued with slight inter- 

 mission till two o'clock. The HORSES were all SCATTERED : the 

 last of mine was found at nine, but six of Crosbie's were not 

 found till three o'clock, so that we could not move camp. 



March 26. The night was fine and the morning was sunny. 

 Only one shower fell at midday. 



Leaving Camp 66, we kept the DIVIDE for 2 miles to WNW. 

 There was fair grass, and timber comprising stringybark, bloodwood, 

 myall-wood, and nonda. On reaching a PITCHER-PLANT BOG, 

 falling to the north (Kennedy [Jackey-Jackey] waters), we headed 

 it in a quarter of a mile to the west. 



For a mile and a half to W. 10 N., we kept the crown of the 

 DIVIDE till we reached a valley running a little west of north, with 

 high ground beyond it. 



For the next three-quarters of a mile we ran down the right 

 bank of a fourth-magnitude creek, flanked by a PITCHER-PLANT 

 BOG, till the creek was joined by a gully coming from the 

 east. We crossed the latter with some difficulty, and kept 

 the right bank of the joint stream for three-quarters of a 

 mile to the west, on the summit of a low ridge covered with 

 forest trees. 



In a mile and a half to the north-west, gently descending 

 through closely timbered country (stringybark, bloodwood and 

 myall), fairly well grassed, Crosbie climbed a high tree on a rise, 

 and saw the mangroves of a branch of the Kennedy, half a mile 

 to the north. He could see across the Kennedy estuary to the 

 point of ALBANY ISLAND. 



In the hope of heading this branch of the Kennedy [i.e., of 

 Jackey-Jackey Creek], we altered our course. In three-quarters 

 of a mile we reached a BOG, fringing a canal-like creek of the 



1 This appears on the Lands Department maps as OLIVE CREEK, so named after 

 the Mayor of Cooktown. R. L. J. 



