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travelled much better upon it, and going back or home- 

 wards along that track, was more convenient in various 

 respects, than to travel where there was no road at all. 

 As it now became necessary to distinguish the different 

 ranges on my map, I attached to this remarkable cluster of 

 hills the name of Mr. Greenough, a gentleman who has 

 done so much in uniting geology with geography, to the 

 great advantage of both. 



On returning to the camp, I found that two natives had 

 been in communication with our party on the river, during 

 my absence ; and that overseer Burnett had made a good 

 bargain, having obtained from one of them, a very well 

 made net, in exchange for a clasp knife, with which the 

 native seemed much pleased. These visitors were young 

 men, carrying each a net, and seemed to belong to the other 

 side of the river. Soon after I returned, our old friends of 

 the Red tribe came up in a body of about twelve, carrying- 

 boughs. It was near sun-set, and still they shewed no 

 disposition to go back to the river, but, on the contrary, they 

 seemed about to make up their fires, and remain with us for 

 the night. As their calls for tomahawks were incessant, it 

 was easy to foresee, that it would soon be necessary to 

 frighten them away with our guns, if they were allowed to 

 continue near us. I therefore directed Burnett to point 

 to the river, and request them to go thither to sleep, which 

 they at length did. We also took care not to allow them 

 to come close to the carts, to prevent which several men 

 met them at a little distance, where they took their 

 stand. On the bank of the river, at this place, we found 

 beside the native fires, the remains of a fruit, different from 

 any I had seen before. It seemed to be of a round shape, 

 with a rind like an orange, and the inside, which appeared 

 to have been eaten, resembled a pomegranate.* We here 

 lost a bullock, which fell into a deep part of the river and 



* Since ascertained to have been Capparis Mitchellii {Undl. MSS.) See 

 page 315. 



