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On Monday, 1st July, sent "Beman and "Jimmy" to the Palm 
Cam]), to bring down Messrs. Bailey and Broadbent. 
On the 2nd Harold and myself went down the east side of the 
main creek, crossed over to Mount Harold, and went to the top a 
second time, with the same results so far as the wallabies were con- 
cerned, though ^^^e saw a score of them at a safe distance: dark red 
wallabies with long tufted tails. 
On the 3rd Bailey, Broadbent, and party arrived, having camped 
the previous night on the crest of Barnard's Spur. At night the 
thermometer fell to 42 degrees. 
On the 4th Bailey and myself went out collecting, and dis])layed 
an amicable unanimity by falling into a creek together, and a great 
deal of self-possession and agility in getting out again. 
On the 5th Broadbent, Harold, myself, and two of the boys made 
a third ascent to the summit of Mount Harold, and again failed to 
secure a wallaby, though we obtained a few other specimens. On the 
way up 1 killed a carj^et snake containing some a.nimal undergoing a 
process of digestion. On my return one of the boys brought it 
down, and we found the animal to b^^ a fair-sized common wallaby. 
How so small a snake swallowed so large a beast is a problem no 
one but the snake could possibly explain. 
On the 6th the whole party wei'e out collecting in various direc- 
tions. On the 7th, Whelan came over from the Mulgrave, and we 
decided that he and I should make a flying trip round the whole 
Bellenden-Ker Eange from south to north. On the 8th, we started 
with three boys, who were to meet us on the summit of Barnard's 
Spur after we had followed up and explored the main creek. At 
night we camped in a blacks' camp on the spur mentioned, heavy rain 
falling and dripping through the roof and down our backs all night, 
so that sleep had to be postponed for another occasion. 
In the morning the creek at the Pools was uncrossable, so we 
returned to the camp to find the main creek flooded. We were 
compelled to strip and swim across through the least dangerous 
channels among the granite rocks. 
On this date the Government prospecting party, in charge of 
James Toohey, came up and camped on the creek beside us. While 
Broadbent was out to-day he found the skeleton of a black-fellow, 
and brought in the skull for the Museum. 
On the 10th Whelan took the prospectors to see some reefs 
near Mount Sophia, Bailey and Broadbent went up the creek, and 
" Multarri " and myself partly ascended Mount Toressa. 
On the 11th we shifted camp to the edge of the Mulgrave Plain, 
on Tringilburra Creek, and remained six days, making a considerable 
collection of plants, birds, and land shells. Game was plentiful here ; 
turkeys, pigeons, and scrub hens more than sufficient to supply the 
camp. One of the blackboys was discharged on the 17th, and 
"Multarri" sent back with grateful thanks to Swallow and Derham. 
On the 18th Bailey, Broadbent, Harold, myself, and the two boys 
went down to the Hussell River, leaving the camp in charge of Beman. 
At the E-ussell we were again joined by Whelan, and he and 
myself started for Bartle Frere on Saturday, the 20th of July. We 
rode eighteen miles up the river, the track all the way througii some of 
the densest brush in Queensland, and stayed all night at " '^eechappa," 
an old bora ground, used as a camp for the lower alluvial diggings on 
