8 situated on the left side of Landsborough's Creek at a
place about two miles north of a table range on the opposite bank.

We started this morning at 10.25. When we had followed down the left bank
of the creek we crossed Cornish Creek a short distance above its junction
with Landsborough's Creek. It had been recently flooded, and although the
ford was a good one the stream was still about three feet deep. Below the
junction of this creek the watercourse is called Landsborough's River.
(Lower down we ascertained it was called the Thomson River.) On the left
bank of Cornish Creek there are wooded ranges extending for several miles
down the river. After leaving these ridges our path down the left bank of
the river went over rich undulating ground with good grass and a few
belts of box-trees. On the opposite side of the river there is a
considerable extent of wooded country. On our journey one of the packs
having partly broken loose so frightened the horse carrying it that he
galloped off, and was not recovered until he had scattered his load,
consisting of medicines and peas, broadcast on the plain. The medicine
was recovered but the bulk of the peas were lost. About ten miles before
I reached camp I made the meridian altitude of the sun 63.18, on a good
land horizon; latitude 22 degrees 27 minutes 39 seconds. We came here on
the following courses: 10.20 south-east and by east two and three-quarter
miles; 11.40 south-south-east four miles; 12.45 south-south-east two
miles to ---- Creek; 3.20 south seven and a quarter miles. Distance today
sixteen miles.

April 1.

We started this morning at eight. When we had come down along the left
bank of the river about eight miles Jemmy and I left our party and went
back to the unwooded downs. These downs extend as far as the eye can
reach to the eastward. Before we had gone far we found the recent tracks
of an exploring party, and instead of rejoining our party we followed the
tracks to see where they led, which appeared to be in the direction of
some untimbered hills on the left bank of the Aramak Creek. After leaving
the tracks we made for the river, and reached it at a point a short
distance above an old camp of mine where there is a tree marked L over
LXIX. At the river we found we had overshot our party, so we had to
follow the river up to find their encampment. Our path today went fifteen
miles over unwooded, undulating, rich ground bearing abundance of grass;
then eleven a