192 kjsnnedy's expedition. 



veiling- over sandy ridges covered with Eugenia, 

 Exocarpus, and a very pretty Eucalyptus, with 

 rose-coloured flowers and obcordate leaves, and 

 yellow soft bark; also a dwarfish tree T\dth dark 

 green leaves, and axillary racemes of round mono- 

 spermons, fruit of a purple colour, with a thin rind 

 of a bitter flavour ; also a great many trees of 

 moderate size, from fifteen to twenty feet high, of 

 rather pendulous habit, oval lanceolate exstipulate 

 leaves, loaded with an oblong j^ellow fruit, having 

 a rough stone inside j the part covering the stone 

 has, when ripe, a meal}- appearance, and very good 

 flavour. I considered from its appearance it was the 

 fruit which Leichhardt called the ^^nonda," which 

 we always afterwards called it ; we all ate plentifully 

 of it. 



The weather for the last few days had been very 

 hot, the thermometer ranging in the shade from 95° 

 to 100° at noon ; still there T\as generally a breeze 

 in the morning from the eastward, and in the 

 evening from the west. We camped by the same 

 creek as on the previous day, but in our present 

 position it was running S.W. Avith several lagoons 

 in the valley, full of Nymph(Ba and Villarsia • our 

 latitude here was 16° 33' south. 



Sept. 24:th. — We crossed the creek and proceeded 

 northward, till we camped by a dry creek, from the 

 bed of Avhich we obtained water by dig-ging. Dur- 

 ing the day's journey, we passed over some flats of 

 rotten honeycomb ground, on which nothing was 



