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Somewhere about Camp 4 or Camp 5, the presence of a POISON 

 PLANT was for the first time suspected, two of the horses showing 

 symptoms which could not be explained otherwise. (SEE MAPS 

 E, FANDC.) 



Taking a northward course from CAMP 5, the marked tree line 

 to the Coen was struck on 26th June and followed, via the 

 STEWART RIVER and LALLA ROOKH Station to the COEN DIGGINGS. 

 The subsequently constructed Telegraph line follows the route 

 closely. 



North of Camp 5, Bradford identified my Camp 35 of 7th 

 September, 1879, m 7 "View Hill," south of the Stewart River 

 (now known as Fox's LOOKOUT), my " NOTICE CREEK" and my 

 " Grave Creek " (more correctly the creek on which I had observed 

 a grave). Nine days were spent at Lalla Rookh, while beef was 

 captured, killed and cured. CAMP 12 (8th July) was beside the 

 PROSPECTORS' HUT at the COEN. 



Bradford remarked that the river supposed by the prospectors 

 to be the same as that named the Coen (by Carstenszoon in 1623) 

 was not the " true Coen," but merely a head of the JARDINE 

 BROTHERS' ARCHER RIVER. In this, of course, he was right, as the 

 Dutchman's Coen has a very short course and nowhere approaches 

 the Telegraph line, but the branch of the Archer which has its 

 source in the goldfield is almost as long as the Archer itself, and must 

 have a name. As the goldfield and river have now been too long 

 known as the Coen to be altered without causing fresh confusion, 

 the Survey Department has distinguished the river as the SOUTH 

 COEN. 



On ytb and loth July, Bradford travelled NNW., mainly on a 

 ridge between my CROLL CREEK and a creek to the west of it, which 

 he named BOURNE CREEK, after the General Inspector of the Post 

 and Telegraph Department. His CAMP 13 was opposite Mount 

 Croll and his CAMP 14 was where Croll and Bourne Creeks both fall 

 into the Archer River. It may be remembered that I had 

 provisionally given the name of PEACH to the ARCHER RIVER, as 

 there was no clue to its identity with any of the rivers named by the 

 Dutch or the Jardine Brothers. CAMP 15 (nth July) was on the 

 Peach (ARCHER) RIVER on the site of MY CAMP 13 (2nd trip, 1879), 

 Bradford having identified it by the marked tree. From Mount 

 Croll north-north-westward to his CAMP 15, Bradford's route was 

 east of my outward route on the second trip. Mine was on the top 

 of the Geikie Tableland and his between that tableland and the 

 Archer River. 



The ARCHER RIVER was crossed on I2tb July where (as I had 

 observed from the " View Hill " on Geikie Creek) it makes a 

 breach in the Geikie Tableland. CAMP 17 (i^th July) was on Sugar- 

 bag, or SEARY, CREEK, apparently between the site of the future 

 Mein Telegraph Station and Pine Creek cattle station. From the 



