138 MOUNT WARROGA. [CH. VI. 



The men caught several large " cod" (Peel's perch), one 

 of which weighed 13 pounds. The river remained unswoUen. 



Feh. 27. — As we continued our homeward journey, Mr. 

 Brown overtook us. He had found various hrands of his 

 cattle, on portions of hide about the stock-yard. He assured 

 nie, I should find no water at my old encampment, where I 

 intended again to halt, for that he had passed the previous 

 night there without water. I, however, had the satisfaction 

 to find as much as ever on the rocky bed of the water-course, 

 where it is not so liable to be absorbed. Having arrived 

 early at this spot, I again ascended the range, and proceeded 

 along its crests to one of the highest summits, named War- 

 roga. From this point, I could at length recognize Mount 

 Murulla, Oxley's Pic, Moan, and other pinnacles of the 

 Liverpool range, and with which, I now connected my last 

 station upon the Nammoy. From Ydire, a hill nearer the 

 cam^), I also obtained, in returning, some observations, and 

 one angle of great value with Blount Forbes, much required, 

 for the purpose of mapping the country we had explored. 

 On the side of Warroga, we saw a very large black wallaroo, 

 which sat looking at us with apparent curiosity. 



Scurvy now began to affect the party. We endeavoured 

 to counteract the progress of this disease by plentiful issues 

 of lime juice, and some portable, vegetable soups, but of the 

 latter we had but a very small supply. Dysentery did not 

 alarm us much, for the Doctor generally set the patients to 

 rights in eight and forty hours, with something he found 

 in the medicine chest. 



Feh. 28. — The morning was fine,* when we again saw the 

 plains of Mullaba, on passing through the gorge under 

 Mount Ydire. As we travelled across the plains, on which 

 the young verdure, first offspring of the late rain, already 

 began to shoot — four emus were observed quietly feeding at 



• "Fclicissimos cranlos ticmpos," (the weather was fine), suld Cervantes — 

 which words Smollett literally translated, " Happy were the times." Both 

 meanings would apply to our caae then. 



