with box, and at other places with a few bushes.  Near the creek the land is flat and badly grassed, but back from the creek the land is undulating and well grassed.  From our path we saw on both sides of us table ranges which gave a charm to the landscape.  We came here on the following courses:  11.20 south-west and by south eight miles; 12.10 west one mile; 12.48 south-south-west one and three-quarter miles; 1.20 south one and a half miles; 2.35 south-east three and three-quarter miles; 5.25 south seven and a half miles.

March 30.

This being Sunday we rested ourselves and horses.

March 31.  Camp 38 situated on the left side of Landsborough’s Creek at a place about two miles north of a table range on the opposite bank.

We started this morning at 10.25.  When we had followed down the left bank of the creek we crossed Cornish Creek a short distance above its junction with Landsborough’s Creek.  It had been recently flooded, and although the ford was a good one the stream was still about three feet deep.  Below the junction of this creek the watercourse is called Landsborough’s River.  (Lower down we ascertained it was called the Thomson River.) On the left bank of Cornish Creek there are wooded ranges extending for several miles down the river.  After leaving these ridges our path down the left bank of the river went over rich undulating ground with good grass and a few belts of box-trees.  On the opposite side of the river there is a considerable extent of wooded country.  On our journey one of the packs having partly broken loose so frightened the horse carrying it that he galloped off, and was not recovered until he had scattered his load, consisting of medicines and peas, broadcast on the plain.  The medicine was recovered but the bulk of the peas were lost.  About ten miles before I reached camp I made the meridian altitude of the sun 63.18, on a good land horizon; latitude 22 degrees 27 minutes 39 seconds.  We came here on the following courses:  10.20 south-east and by east two and three-quarter miles; 11.40 south-south-east four miles; 12.45 south-south-east two miles to ——­ Creek; 3.20 south seven and a quarter miles.  Distance today sixteen miles.

April 1.

We started this morning at eight.  When we had come down along the left bank of the river about eight miles Jemmy and I left our party and went back to the unwooded downs.  These downs extend as far as the eye can reach to the eastward.  Before we had gone far we found the recent tracks of an exploring party, and instead of rejoining our party we followed the tracks to see where they led, which appeared to be in the direction of some untimbered hills on the left bank of the Aramak Creek.  After leaving the tracks we made for the river, and reached it at a point a short distance above an old camp of mine where there is a tree marked L over LXIX.  At the river we found we had overshot our party, so we had to follow the river up to find their encampment.