+ OF the oountay | docs not 100 
: any “sorub- along the oreek and a4 only struck a oor uple 
ee ; “ sorubs. on the: orecks. ruming into it; no water net with era oe . 
tren Rica main orecks Bird life very soarce, 
yh 
Wednesday-6/11/22 ~ to. Saturday-11/11/22 = Too i11 to make a 
start out; had an attagk of | Malaria, Three other men here bad 
with the same complaint, | 
gunday-12/11/22 - Feel pretty right to-day, 80 ‘ad the horses 
| in, load up and make a start off out about 10.30nm, Head for 
uullingar yard about ten, miles to castward, on Tonkelly creek; 
this is the only place that I ean hear of where there may be 
feed for the horses, A mile from Coen we oross the Tanke 
and start the ascent of the range, from, here on the going ts 
very dicho ap and down ell. the time over the esas forest 
elad spurs abutting on the creck, Crouse the orcek again about "s ee 
four niles out; 16 is quite dry here; for the next three miles ee 
she track leads up over much rougher gountry, till we Pe eee 
what is known ag on top; from here to the yard the going is 
; meh better. Reach the yard and turn out about 5pm. ‘there is : 
"plenty of water in the creck, ‘but the grass here is very poor, Se Rath 
pretty well eaten out, After lunch we gO out to Bee S we can raise 9 
By goes out towsrds the 
find any devent feed for ‘the horses; 
| south, ond I 0 UD the ereck for a eouple of miles and circle oe 
wound back to. ap 5 aia not find any feed at all, Bill arrived : 
ae shortly & afterwards, he had found a little pateh of feed, 
esoe enough ¢ to do the horses tor a couple of days, about @ mile to” 
3 th of the yard go he took the horses elong to it this part 
look very promising, there ‘is soarecly 
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