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Two more of our horses fell several times this 

 day j one of them being- very old, and so weak that 

 we were obliged to Hft him up. We now made 

 up our minds for the first time, to make our horses, 

 when too weak to travel, available for food ; we 

 therefore killed him, and took meat enough from 

 his carcass to serve our party for two days, and by 

 this means we saved a sheep. We boiled the heart, 

 liver, and a piece of the meat to serve us for our 

 breakfast next day. We camped in the evening* in 

 the midst of rocky, broken hills, covered with dwarf 

 shrubs and stunted gum-trees; the soil in which 

 they g-rew appearing- more sandy than what we had 

 yet passed on this side of the raug-e. The shrubs 

 here were Dodonaia, Fahricia, Daviesia, Jachsoiiia, 

 and two or three dwarf species of acacia, one of M-hich 

 ^Y^iS \ery showy, about three feet high, with, very 

 small, oblong, sericeous phyllodia, and globular heads 

 of bright yellow flowers, produced in great abun- 

 dance on axillary fascicles ; also a very fine leg'u- 

 minous shrub, bearing the habit and appearance of 

 Callistachijs, with fine terminal spikes of purple 

 decandrous flowers, with two small bracteee on the 

 foot-stalk of each flower, and with stipulate, oval, 

 lanceolate leaves, tomentose beneath, legumes small 

 and flattened, three to six seeded, with an arillus as 

 large as the seed j these were flowering fi-om four 

 to twelve feet high. There was plenty of grass in 

 the valleys of the creeks. , To the S.W. on the hills 

 the grasses Mere Bestio, Xerotes, and a spiny 



