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appeared to become less grassy and more heathy as we went on, we 

 retraced our steps for half a mile and camped. (CAMP 68.) 



Cattle-dung was plentiful at this camp. RAIN fell from the 

 start in the morning till two o'clock. There was also a heavy shower 

 at sunset. 



I followed the creek for about a mile down from the camp, till 

 it began to run to the north-east. Some sea-shells were seen 

 here in a BLACKS' CAMP. This creek is probably the main head of 

 the KENNEDY. The creek was deep and narrow, like a canal, and 

 very rapid, but I thought it could be forded in one place if it should 

 fall a little during the night. 



[To avoid the confusion arising from the numerous Kennedy 

 Rivers and Kennedy Creeks, I retained the name for the estuary 

 or " inlet," but named one of its principal affluents JACKEY-]ACKEY 

 CREEK, after Kennedy's faithful black boy, whose heroism deserves 

 an honourable place in history. These alterations were embodied 

 in the map which accompanied my report when it was originally 

 presented, but which was not published, and appears to have 

 been lost, though not before some of its data had been utilised 

 in the compilation of maps issued by the Lands Department. 

 R. L. J.] 



March 28. There was one shower before daybreak. 



To-day's living being provided for by yesterday's baking, I 

 divided the rest of the flour (25 Ib.) into FIVE DAYS' RATIONS. We 

 were thus provided for this and other five days, which we all 

 thought ample time to allow for covering the 30 MILES which 

 now divided us FROM SOMERSET. In the worst case possible, we 

 were now so near our destination that when our rations ran out we 

 had only to leave the horses and go on foot for supplies. 



Five of the prospectors' HORSES were MISSING in the morning, 

 and were not found till midday. Crosbie inspected my " possible " 

 crossing, but found it still impracticable, as the water had rather 

 risen than fallen. 



After breakfast Crosbie and I crossed the creek half a mile 

 below the camp, at a place where it branches into two creeks of 

 the fourth magnitude. We found practicable crossings of both, 

 and went on to WNW. for a mile, across a stringybark ridge, to 

 another bog falling into the one we had left. Crosbie got up a 

 tree here and saw the valley draining to the east. 



On the way back, Crosbie was engaged in improving the crossing 

 with the shovel when a very HEAVY SHOWER came on and speedily 

 made the creek impassable. 



On leaving Camp 68 we built a substantial BRIDGE over the creek 

 below the junction of its two branches. In I mile we reached 

 the bog falling east, and headed it in a quarter of a mile to the 

 south. 



In 2 miles to the north-west and half a mile to the north, with 



