182 Kennedy's expedition. 



undulating' forest land, intersected by numerous 

 creeks and small rivers falling considerably to the 

 westward, as in fact all the water had been 

 running for some days past. Doubtless there must 

 be plenty of water in the holes and reaches of these 

 rivers and creeks at aU seasons, but in the rainy 

 season many of them must be deep and rapid 

 streams, as the flood marks on the trees were from 

 fifteen to twenty feet high. The river along the 

 course of which we had been so long travelling 

 varied in width from two hundred to eig'ht hundred 

 yards. It has two, or, in some places, three distinct 

 channels, and in the flat country throug-h which 

 it passes these are divided by large drooping mela- 

 leucas. 



It is singular that the country here should be so 

 destitute of game ; we had seen a few wallabies and 

 some ducks, but were seldom able to shoot any 

 of them J we had not seen more than four or five 

 emus altogether since we started; a few brown 

 hawks which we occasionally shot, were almost the 

 only addition we were enabled to make to our small 

 ration. To-day we got an iguana and two ducks, 

 which, with the water in which our mutton was 

 boiled, would have made us a good pot of soup, had 

 there been anv substance in the mutton. Even 

 thin as it was, we were very glad to g-et it. The rivers 

 also seemed to contain but few fish, as we only 

 caug'ht a few of two different kinds, one of which 

 without scales, resembled the cat-fish caught near 



