are numerous.) At 11.23 made half a mile south-west by west.  At 11.40 made three-quarters of a mile west to a single column and wall, which I have called Campbell’s Tower.  Mr. Campbell and I got into the tower, which we found a delightful shelter from the heat of the sun, while the troopers were getting cabbage-tree sprouts.  Started again at 12.54 p.m.  At 3.45 made what I supposed to be a branch of the river, as it was hardly running.  Having stopped the horses, Jemmy and I went in search of the running water, and also to look for grass for the horses, as we did not remember having seen any on the course we had come for some distance back, except very coarse grass in the bed of the river, and old grass on the bank, which was too dry to be of service.  At a quarter of a mile further we found the junction, on the right side of the river, of a well-watered creek which I have named after Sir Francis Murphy.  We could not, from its bogginess, cross.  We therefore returned, and recrossed at the old place.  There we went down the river and crossed between the creek I mentioned.  We then followed the same down on the right side about two miles without finding the junction of the running stream; and as it was late we returned to where we had left the main party, and near there formed our thirteenth camp on the left bank of the river.

Sunday December 1.  Camp 13, situated on the Gregory River.

On a particular examination of the grass about the camp I had a better opinion of it, and thought it advisable to remain here until I had made a search for the running water.  At this camp we had a potful of cabbage-tree sprouts, and we ate a large quantity of it with lime juice which made it resemble rhubarb in taste.  It agreed well with us, except with Mr. Campbell, who was slightly sick from eating it.

Monday December 2.  Camp 13.

Before starting to look for the running stream Mr. Allison and I clinched and fastened with other nails the shoes on the horses that Jemmy and I were going to ride.  We left camp at 7.52 a.m.  At 8.30 made one mile and a half east.  At 8.53 made one mile further east.  At 9.6 half a mile east-north-east to junction of a creek on the right side of the river, which I have named the Wilson Creek.  In the fork made by it and the river marked a tree with broad arrow between E. L. At 9.27 we crossed the creek and followed down the river.  At 10.4 we made one mile and a quarter north-east (chiefly at some distance from the river, on the top of the high basaltic bank, which, from the want of soil, has nothing on it except triodia and stunted bloodwood-trees) to a point half a mile south of Campbell’s Tower and west-south-west from a point about two miles down the river.  We started again at 10.13 and reached the rapids in the river, which are about three miles above Number 12 camp; in doing so we kept chiefly at some distance from the river on the barren basaltic rocky ridges, and only crossed two dry watercourses.  With some