any of these necessary
articles, you will do so; also some lime-juice, rum, quinine, caster oil,
and laudanum, which are so useful for the prevention or cure of diseases
to which we will be liable during or after wet weather.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

W. LANDSBOROUGH,

Commander of Victorian and Queensland Land Expedition.

Captain Norman, of H.M.C.S. Victoria,

Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Expedition Parties.

...

COPY OF JOURNAL.

W. LANDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, LEADER OF BRISBANE PARTY.

Albert River, November 18 1861.

Camp Number 2. Situated near the junction of Beames Brook.

Monday November 18.

From the Post-office Lagoon we went one and a half miles west, thence
over fine downs, chiefly wooded with acacia, two and a half miles
south-west, and reached a pond on the left bank of Beames Brook, near
which we had a dinner of young wood from a cabbage-palm-tree which
Fisherman felled near the steep bank of the running stream, at which
place we marked a tree (broad arrow before L) and likewise marked in the
same way a more conspicuous tree which stands a little further out from
the brook; thence eight miles south-west, over fine rich plains with a
good variety of grass upon them, and a few plants of saline herbs. It was
then time to encamp, as we had been travelling for five hours; we
therefore changed our course to north-west for three-quarters of a mile,
and reached a branch of the Nicholson River consisting of at least four
channels, one full of fine clear running water, on the right bank of
which we formed our Number 3 Camp.

Tuesday November 19. Camp Number 3.

The channels are shaded by drooping tea-trees, swamp-oaks, etc. As it was
unnamed on the charts I gave it the name of Gregory River. Some blacks
came up and watched the camp while we were packing. We started up the
river at 8.45 a.m.; we followed the right bank of the watercourse in a
south-south-west direction. At 9.50 we reached a fine point for a station
for stock, about two and a quarter miles by the river from camp, the
first mile and a half of which was in a south-south-west, and the last
three-quarters of a mile in a south by east direction. We could not cross
the river easily, so we kept on the right bank. At 10.20 we reached a
point on the riverbank half a mile south-west from the last. At 10.35 we
made half a mile south. At 10.45, steering south-west by south half a
mile we came to what seemed t