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hitherto we had not succeeded in getting a 
kangaroo. 
July L— To-day we travelled through a similar 
country to that we were in yesterday, consisting of 
open plains and occasionally low scrub. Kangaroos 
abounded in every direction. Our stage was eighteen 
miles to a watercourse called by me the “ Reedy water 
holes/’ from the circumstance of reeds growing 
around the margin of the water. Upon arriving at 
this place I was surprised to find a strongly running 
stream, where formerly there had only been a reedy 
pond, although the two last watercourses we had 
encamped at had been much reduced and dried up. 
When I had been here in 1839, they were the running 
streams, and this only a pool, whilst singularly enough 
there did not appear to have been more rain at one 
place than the other. 
We were now in full view of Spencer’s gulf, but 
as yet could observe no signs of the Waterwitch, 
which was to meet us at the head of the gulf with 
additional stores. At night I observed the latitude 
by altitude of a Bootis to be 32° 41' 28" S. 
July 2.— We moved on for 15 miles over ex- 
tensive plains, covered principally with Rhagodia, 
and in some places stony, and halted early in the 
afternoon at a large dry watercourse, coming out 
from Flinders range. Though there was no water in 
this channel below the base of the hill, on send- 
ing a party a mile and a half up it with spades 
and buckets, we got, by digging in the gravelly bed, 
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