bend was laid down on the chart
too much to the northward. From where we crossed the watercourse we
steered south-east and, after crossing several dry watercourses, in about
two and a half miles reached one with water in it and encamped. In
following up the river today we saw several blacks; some of them wished
to speak to us but we passed them without stopping to do so. We came here
on the following courses from 53 Camp: 11.27 north-east half north three
miles; 12.20 ---- miles; 1.40 east-north-east three and a half miles;
2.25 east by north three and a half miles; 4.25 north-east six miles; 5
east one and a half miles to our crossing-place; 5.50 south-east two and
a quarter miles. Total eighteen and a half miles.

April 24. Camp 55.

We left camp this morning 9.25 and travelled up the river for about
seventeen miles. We encamped 4.55 on the bank of a small creek. The
country we have seen from the path we have traversed, since leaving what
I thought was the Alice River, is very good with the exception of a few
patches of land too thickly wooded with western-wood acacia. The land
generally is thinly wooded with myall and well grassed with the best
grasses. We came from Camp 54 in about the following courses: 11.30 east
for five and three-quarter miles; 12.45, 1.20 south-east and by south for
one and a quarter miles; 4.20 east and by south for eight and a half
miles; 4.55 south for one and a half miles to camp. Distance seventeen
miles.

April 25. Camp 56.

We left Camp 55 this morning at 8.23. When we had journeyed for about
twenty miles we reached a creek, which I thought perhaps was a channel of
the Barcoo River, and encamped on the northern side of the left bank of
the creek. We came during the forenoon in nearly a south-east direction,
and during the afternoon about a point to the eastward of south. By the
latter course we crossed from the left to the right bank of the creek on
which we had our two last camps and left it. The creek was too small to
be the Barcoo River, and the ground on both sides of it too high to admit
of it being an ana-branch. To the southward of our path we observed a
long range of hills, one of which was remarkable for its tabled summit.
The country we saw was more undulated than that we saw yesterday, but
otherwise of a similar description. We came here in about the following
courses: 10.23 south-east for five and a half miles; 11.43
south-south-east for three and a half miles; 2.35 south