118 [Page number]

[27th March]
By the time we had got past the
swamp we were well to the north
of our camp so we turned south
through red-gum country, with
scattered melaleuca thickets and heath.
We were well out in our reckoning
for we walked and walked and
seemed to get nowhere. At long
last we picked up a track which we
recognized as that on which we called
the "minnow-stream"(p[age] 78). Though
we picked up the track a full two miles
from the "minnow-stream" (which was the
'second-spring' just above the swamp) we
still had over a mile to go to our
camp. On this last stretch we saw
the HOODED ROBIN and a pair of EMUS
with six young. We got back to the
car at 6.0 pm â”€ quite exhausted,
having probably done 15 miles for
the day, half of it at least since [guess]