370 Timehri. 
1.35 pm. Start again after photograph with background of 
‘“ Buckeens ”; this should have been an eftective and striking picture, as 
the principals were armed to the teeth with butterfly nets, fishing rods, 
guns, knives and other bristly weapons—but it was too much for the 
camera. This camera had failed us before (as we found afterwards) on 
the steamer, when we had been at much pains to make ourselves 
picturesque and Wide-World-Magazineish—it played another seurvy 
trick on the “rolling downs of Kumaka”~ ; it will be, therefore, merely 
charitable not to advertise it ; and no charge, accordingly, will be made 
for this reference : but it is not easy to get on and keep on for three 
separate prolonged periods, an artless Empire-building expression ; and 
in effect, a sense of injury and lostness comes now ever stealing into our 
meditative moments as we think of the camera. 
At starting, the lead is heaved—two fathoms depth. 
1.45. Yowarani Itabo—other end. 
Aroocoory Creek. 
1.55. Notoro (Cooroowa ?) Itabo (left bank). 
2.05. Kokorite Creek (right bank). 
2.20. Hiblooa Itabo. 
2.25. Lake Ikarua and Boodoodah Creek (big) Eta swamp with the 
usual Macaws. 
2.30 p.m. Opening into swamp left bank. 
3 pan. Contrebisci Creek appears—-Wikki goes to right. Savan- 
nah and broad swamp. 
3 p.m. Turn back taking depth at Seban Creek—3 fathoms. Test 
soil at creek side—loose clay—good, says our guide, for yams, pines, 
ground nuts, &e. Yellow on top—at 14 feet down whiter—signs of iron 
about 8 feet below. 
Home again at Missionary’s Rest House at Kumaka. We endeavour 
to dine off very tough chicken, price 1 shilling, cooking, 2 shillings—no 
wonder—-this is the doing of our guide’s wife—evidently she has been or 
should be a Bayswater lodging house-keeper—she is a ‘“ Buckeen ”—it 
is obvious that the Missionary has not been idle. 
Wednesday.—-Alack ! How times flies ! 
6 a.m. Swim in river, then fish for half-an-hour, do not even catch 
a cold, Then off for a delightful ramble. First we scramble up (panting 
a little) to The House on the Hill, then joyously over the downs enamelled 
with flowers of various hues and low growth. We find the Sandpaper 
bush, and the garlic smelling vine for the fever bath, the Kabadula bush 
rope that gives drinking water to the thirsty bushman ; “ Kamaratuka ” 
