and by east for
four and three-quarter miles; 4.55 south for five and a half miles; 5.15
west and by south for three-quarter miles. Distance twenty miles.

April 26. Camp 57.

We left Camp 56 this morning 9.30. We steered south, and by that course
left the small creek on which we had encamped, and reached another creek
with here and there water in its channel. We followed the creek up nearly
to its source in the fine range of hills I mentioned in yesterday's
journal. Having left the creek we came nearly east for three and a half
miles to the left bank of a watercourse with plenty of water in it and
encamped. The country we saw today was very rich with undulating features
and the best grasses; the timber upon it consisting of myall,
western-wood acacia, brigalow, white-wood and box. The brigalows are few
and far between. The box grows along the watercourses. We came here from
last camp in about the following courses: 2.40 south for ten and
three-quarter miles; 3.10 east for one and a quarter miles; 4
east-south-east two and a quarter miles. Distance fourteen and a quarter
miles.

April 27. Camp 57.

This being Sunday we rested ourselves and our horses. Yesterday I
discovered that I had not repaired my sextant in a satisfactory manner.
The index showed it to be easily put out of adjustment. I made the
meridian altitude of the sun today A.H. 102 degrees 26 minutes; latitude
24 degrees 43 minutes.

April 28, Monday. Camp 58.

The greater part of the forenoon was spent in collecting the horses. We
left Camp 57 at 12.35 p.m. When we had proceeded up the western bank of
the creek (the side on which we had encamped) for about three-quarters of
a mile we crossed it and left it as it became evident that its sources
were in the hills to the right of the course we wanted to pursue. After
proceeding about six and a quarter miles from the creek in an easterly
course over low undulating ridges we saw two emus, which remained in our
vicinity for some time but not sufficiently near to induce any of us to
try and shoot them. Half a mile from this brought us in a south-east
direction to a well-watered creek which we followed up for some distance,
but as it took us in a south-west direction we returned and followed it
down. This took us in a north-east direction. When we had come down the
creek about three miles, reckoning from the place we first struck it, we
encamped. The ground near here is flat and intersected by watercourses,