The boats launched on the Glenelg. 
Mr. Stapylton left with a depot at Fort O’Hare. 
Character of the river. 
Ornithorynchus paradoxus. 
Black swans. 
Water brackish. 
Isle of Bags. 
Arrival at the seacoast. 
Discovery bay. 
Mouth of the Glenelg. 
Waterholes dug in the beach. 
Remarkable hollow. 
Limestone cavern. 
One fish caught in the Glenelg. 
Stormy weather. 
Return to the depot. 
Difference in longitude.

CHAPTER 3.11.

Leave the Glenelg and travel eastward. 
Cross the Crawford. 
Boggy character of its sources. 
Recross the Rifle range. 
Heavy timber the chief impediment. 
Travelling also difficult from the softness of the ground. 
Excursion southward to Portland Bay. 
Mount Eckersley. 
Cross the Fitzroy. 
Cross the Surry. 
Lady Julia Percy’s Isle. 
Beach of Portland Bay. 
A vessel at anchor. 
House and farming establishment there. 
Whale fishery. 
Excursion to Cape Nelson. 
Mount Kincaid. 
A whale chase. 
Sagacity of the natives on the coast. 
Mount Clay. 
Return to the camp. 
Still retarded by the soft soil. 
Leave one of the boats, and reduce the size of the boat carriage. 
Excursion to Mount Napier. 
Cross some fine streams. 
Natives very timid. 
Crater of Mount Napier or Murroa. 
View from the summit. 
Return to the Camp. 
Mr. Stapylton’s excursion to the north-west. 
The Shaw. 
Conduct the carts along the highest ground. 
Again ascend Murroa and partially clear the summit. 
Mount Rouse. 
Australian Pyrenees. 
Swamps harder than the ground around them. 
Again reach the good country. 
Mounts Bainbrigge and Pierrepoint. 
Mount Sturgeon. 
Ascend Mount Abrupt. 
View of the Grampians from the summit. 
Victoria range and the Serra. 
Mud again, and a broken axle. 
Mr. Stapylton examines the country before us. 
At length get through the soft region. 
Cattle quite exhausted. 
Determine to leave them in a depot to refresh while I proceed forward. 
Specimens of natural history. 
Situation of depot camp at Lake Repose.

CHAPTER 3.12.

Parting of The Widow and her child. 
We at length emerge on much firmer ground. 
River Hopkins. 
Mount Nicholson. 
Cockajemmy salt lakes. 
Natives ill disposed. 
Singular weapon. 
Treacherous concealment of a native. 
Contents of a native’s basket and store. 
A tribe comes forward. 
Fine country for colonisation. 
Hollows in the downs. 
Snakes numerous. 
Native females. 
Cattle tracks. 
Ascend Mount Cole. 
Enter on a granite country. 
Many rivulets. 
Mammeloid hills. 
Lava, the surface rock. 
Snakes eaten by the natives. 
Ascend Mount Byng. 
Rich grass.