difficulty we crossed at the top of the rapids.  A few yards lower the stream is three feet deep and several yards wide.  Having now gone round the running water, as the country is very dry on both sides of the river, it follows that this fine stream proceeds from springs in the immediate neighbourhood.  We left the rapids to return to camp at 3.22 p.m. at a smart walk.  At 4.10 we made two miles and a half to a tree in a narrow pass, which we marked with a broad arrow between E. L. At 4.20 started again, and at 4.40 made one mile to Campbell’s Tower; then at 5.9 two miles and a half to a pillar 40 feet high.  At 6.14 two miles and three-quarters to camp.

Tuesday December 3.  Camp 13.

At 8.15 a.m. we left this camp; crossed the river with the intention of following it on that side when practicable.  At 8.26 made a quarter of a mile north-west.  At 8.35 made half a mile west-north-west.  At 8.50 made half a mile south-west and by west.  At 9.4 made half a mile west-north-west.  At 9.16 made half a mile west-south-west to junction of another creek from the south, named by me Haughton Creek.  At 9.45 made one mile west-south-west to junction of another creek from the south, named by me Dodwell Creek.  At 10.12 made one mile west by north.  At 10.20 made a quarter of a mile west to junction of another creek from south.  At 10.27 made a quarter of a mile north by west.  At 10.52 made three-quarters of a mile north-west.  At 11.7 made half a mile north-west.  At 11.20 made half a mile west and by south.  At 11.40 made three-quarters of a mile north-west.  At noon made three-quarters of a mile west.  At 12.26 made one mile west and by south.  At 1 made one mile west by south.  At 1.7 made a quarter of a mile south to a point on the right bank, where we formed our fourteenth camp, as we found there water in the river from a recent thunderstorm.  The bed of the river we had found perfectly dry for some distance back.  The river is badly watered along the course we have come.  Below our last camp it has quite a different character.  There are now only gumtrees in the bed of it, whereas lower down it was crowded with green trees, consisting chiefly of fig, Leichhardt, drooping tea-tree, cabbage-palm, pandanus, etc.  All the country above Camp 11 on the banks of the river is composed of barren, rocky, basaltic ridges, which are slightly timbered with stunted bloodwood trees and overrun with triodia, with the exception of narrow strips of flooded country on each side of the river, on the lowest parts of which there is coarse grass, and on the higher parts there are tufts of the best description of grasses.

Tuesday December 4.  Camp Number 14, situated on the Gregory River.