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selves to another trial; indeed it was with some degree of 
horror that the men saw the first light of morning streak the 
horizon. They got up immediately, and we moved down 
the creek, on a northerly course, without breakfasting as 
usual. We found that dense brushes of casuarina lined 
the creek on both sides, beyond which, to our left, there 
was open rising ground, on which eucalypti, cypresses, and 
the acacia longifolia, prevailed ; whilst to the east, plains 
seemed to predominate. 
Although we had left the immediate spot at which the 
kangaroo flies (cabarus) seemed to be collected, I did not 
expect that we should have got rid of them so completely 
as we did. None of them were seen during the day ; a 
proof that they were entirely local. They were about half 
the size of a common house fly, had flat brown bodies, and 
their bite, although sharp and piercing, left no irritation 
after it. 
About noon we stopped at the creek side to take some 
refreshment. The country bore an improved appearance 
around us, and the cattle found abundance of pasture. 
It was evident that the creek had been numerously fre- 
quented by the natives, although no recent traces of them 
could be found. It had a bed of coarse red granite, of the 
fragments of which the natives had constructed a weir 
for the purpose of taking fish. The appearance of this 
rock in so isolated a situation, is worthy the consideration 
of geologists. 
The promise of improvement I have noticed, gradually 
