and sandy; about seven miles below the last camp it is
joined by a smaller watercourse from the north-west named by me Raff
Creek. The country we saw from our path was mostly good. It consists of
well-grassed, thinly-wooded flats, separated from each other by belts of
Port Curtis sandalwood, bauhinia, and other small trees, and at other
places by low ridges with triodia. The country in the immediate
neighbourhood consists of low ridges of poor soil with numerous rocky
gullies. These ridges are chiefly wooded with ironbak and grassed with
triodia. We traversed down the creek in the following way: 9.25
south-south-east three and a quarter miles; 11.4 south two and
three-quarter miles to Raff Creek; 1.30 south five and three-quarter
miles; 2.10 south-east and by south one and a quarter miles to a small
creek from the north-west; 3.54 south two miles to here.

March 26.

We left camp this morning at 8.45. When we had travelled at our usual
pace till 1.45 we encamped at a small creek from the north-east. We
stopped here as we found dray-tracks near the creek that I wanted to
trace. After unsaddling Fisherman and I traced them a short distance to
the north-east. The tracks were made probably by the parties who have
occupied Bowen Downs. Bowen Downs is a fine tract of country that Mr. N.
Buchanan and I discovered about two years ago. The country we passed over
today is easily described. It is undulating poor land of a sandstone
formation, grassed with triodia and wooded with ironbark and bloodwood.
Having left the creek on which we encamped last night our course today
took us back onto high ground from which, descending, we reached this by
the following courses: 11.45 south-south-west eight and three-quarter
miles; 1.45 south five and three-quarter miles. Distance come today
fourteen and a half miles. In a waterhole near camp Mr. Bourne caught a
great quantity of small fish, an agreeable addition to our fare, and from
the same waterhole Fisherman got a quantity of mussels for our breakfast
tomorrow.

March 27. Camp 35, situated on the right bank of a small well-watered
creek at a point about half a mile above its junction with a larger creek
from the north-west.

Jackey and I left camp this morning at 9. When we had gone down the creek
in a southerly direction for two and three-quarter miles we left it and
went west, expecting to find the tracks of our party as I had asked Mr.
Bourne to steer south-south-west; but, not fi