point
of the river where it is unconfined by ridges it flows in several
channels.

Sunday June 2. Bunnawanah, Darling River.

Last Friday and Saturday were spent in travelling to here from the
Warrego River. The distance from Eringa to here is called seventy miles.
About eight miles before we reached here we passed the station of Messrs.
Collis on Culgoa River. The country we saw between here and the Warrego
River is level, covered with saltbush and grass. It resembles some
country I have seen near Hay on the Murrumbidgee River. From the
newspapers yesterday we learned that Mr. Walker's party had arrived in
April at Port Denison, and learned that Mr. Howitt had received
instructions to remain on Cooper's Creek for our arrival. Of course if I
had known there was a depot there I should have gone to it from the
Thomson River; and now I think it will be advisable to proceed to
Menindie and there take the most advisable mode of letting Howitt know of
our safe return from the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Wednesday June 5. Bunnawanah, Darling River.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and today we remained here to recruit the
horses. Mr. Rutherford, one of the proprietors of the neighbouring
station, kindly supplied us with what stores we required at a lower rate
than is charged anywhere; and at the station of Mr. T. Danger we got as
much beef as we required for the road en route to Menindie.

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NOTES.

Excoecaria: A good-sized bush or small tree occupying the low depressions
above the saline alluvial ground on the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is
milk-flowing but poisonous.

Erythrina: or coral tree.

Pigweed: Portulaca, or the native purslane, a creeping annual of a
reddish-green colour and an excellent vegetable.

Triodia: Sometimes called spinifex, or porcupine grass, is a true desert
plant, and at the end of each leaf it is so armed with short prickles
that horses dread going through it, and stock never touch it except when
it is very young or they are starving.

Gidya: A native name; the botanical name cannot be given without a
specimen.

Western-wood Acacia: Same as Gidya.

Roley-poley: An annual salsolaceous plant. It grows in the form of a
large ball, several feet high, on rich soil. It withers in the dry
season, is easily broken off and rolled along by the winds, hence its
name.

Cotton Vine: A plant, probably the same cynanolium of which the unripe
milky pod is eaten by the natives about Lake Torrens.

Polygonum