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banks, lined with large casuarinas and flooded-gum 

 trees, and abundance of grass growing- in the valley 

 of the river. At this camp the feet of our horses 

 Avere all carefully examined by Costigan, who was 

 a blacksmith : it was also his duty to mark the 

 number of each of our camps on some adjacent 

 tree. 



Aug. 19th. — Wall rode back to see if he could 

 bring up the horse we had left behind, but on 

 reaching the spot found him dead; one of our 

 kangaroo dogs had also stopped behind by the 

 horse, being unable to follow us to the camp. We 

 had the good luck to succeed in catching several 

 fish in the river, and, what was better, shot a fine 

 wallaby, which saved us another sheep. We had 

 all along been particularly unfortunate in getting 

 any thing from the bush to add to our mess, not 

 having been able either to shoot or catch any thing 

 for some time past except a few pigeons and two or 

 three brown hawks. 



The river by which we were camped was running- 

 west by south : below our camp it was not nearly so 

 \\ide as at the spot where we came upon it. Where 

 it turned through the hills its banks were rocky and 

 steep, and the bed narrow, but running rapidl}'. 

 The hills here, as well as the valley of the river, 

 M ere well covered with grass. The position of the 

 camp was in about 1?" 30' south latitude, and 

 14.5" 12' east longitude. 



Ai/g. 20th, 21st, 22nd.— During the whole of 



