The horses having rambled a considerable distance out on the plain Jemmy and Jackey were a long time bringing them to camp, and we did not manage to start this morning until 9.3.  At 10 came over two kinds of well-grassed country in an east and north direction for three miles, the first part wooded with box and bauhinia, the second a plain between belts of timber.  At 11 came east-south-east across a plain to some extent overrun with roley-poley to a deep stream flowing to the north.  Here I swam across to the opposite bank to a plain which appeared beautifully level and made on it the meridian altitude of the sun 75 degrees 36 minutes, latitude 20 degrees 23 minutes.  Started again at 12.50 and came up along the stream in a south-east direction one and a half miles over well grassed land wooded with box to the outlet of a stream from the river and encamped.  Distance today seven and a quarter miles.

March 6.  Camp 20, situated on the left bank of a northern channel of the Flinders River.

The water having fallen greatly since yesterday we carried the saddles and packs over and then led the horses.  As the northern bank was boggy we had to apply the whip severely to some of the horses to get them to ascend it.  At 9.57 a.m., having packed the horses, we started.  At 10.58 came east and by south up along the left bank of a watercourse with a thin margin of box-trees for three miles.  At 11.12 Jemmy and I left the party and came south for three-quarters of a mile across a plain to the right bank of the river where, halting, I made the meridian altitude of the sun 75 degrees 6 minutes, latitude 20 degrees 31 minutes.  At 12.40 came half a mile north-east.  At 1.12 come along a plain in a south-east and by east direction one and a half miles to a deeper and broader outlet from the river than the one we crossed in the morning.  Overtook our party here and assisted to unsaddle and unpack.  The horses were then driven into the stream and swum across.  Afterwards we pulled the saddles and packs across with a rope and encamped.  We adopted the following plan for taking them over the river.  We attached the articles to the middle of a rope and passed one end of it over the fork of a tree on the southern bank; one end of the rope being pulled with sufficient force to keep the goods clear of the water, and the other end pulled with much greater force, the goods were safely landed on the southern bank.  This would have been accomplished easily if we had had a pulley, but as we had none it took hard pulling to make the rope travel.  The country we passed over has the same rich character as the land I described yesterday.  Distance today four and a quarter miles.

March 7.  Camp 21, situated on right bank of Flinders River.