We have regularly balanced our loads, and made up every bag of flour to the weight of 120 pounds:  of these we have eight, which are to be carried by four bullocks.  The chocolate and the gelatine are very acceptable at present, as so little animal food can be obtained.  The country continues to be extremely boggy, though the weather has been fine, with high winds, for the last four days.  Tracks of Blackfellows have been seen; but they appear rare and scattered in this part of the country.  Though we meet with no game, tracks of kangaroos are very numerous, and they frequently indicate animals of great size.  Emus have been seen twice.

Thermometer at sunset 65 degrees 7 minutes (75 degrees in the water); at a quarter past one, 90 degrees.  South-westerly winds.

Oct. 19.—­During the night, north-easterly breeze; at the break of day, a perfect calm; after sunset easterly winds again.  Thermometer at sunrise 51 degrees (60 degrees in the water); a cloudless sky.  Mr. Hodgson and Charley, whom I had sent to seek John and Caleb, returned to the camp with a kangaroo.  I sent them immediately off again, with Mr. Roper, to find the two unfortunate people, whose absence gave me the greatest anxiety.  Mr. Roper and Mr. Gilbert had brought one pigeon and one duck, as a day’s sport; which, with the kangaroo, gave us a good and desirable supper of animal food.  During the evening and the night, a short bellowing noise was heard, made probably by kangaroos, of which Mr. Gilbert stated he had seen specimens standing nine feet high.  Brown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly.  The flies become very numerous, but the mosquitoes are very rare.

On a botanical excursion I found a new Loranthus, with flat linear leaves, on Casuarina, a new species of Scaevola, Buttneria, and three species of Solanum.  Mr. Hodgson brought a shrubby Goodenia; another species with linear leaves, and with very small yellow blossoms, growing on moist places in the forest; two shrubby Compositae; three different species of Dodonaea, entering into fruit; and a Stenochilus, R. Br. with red blossoms, the most common little shrub of the forest.

Mr. Gilbert brought me a piece of coal from the crossing place of the creek of the 10th October.  It belongs probably to the same layer which is found at Flagstone Creek, on Mr. Leslie’s station, on Darling Downs.  We find coal at the eastern side of the Coast Range, from Illawarra up to Wide Bay, with sandstone; and it seems that it likewise extends to the westward of the Coast Range, being found, to my knowledge, at Liverpool Plains, at Darling Downs, and at Charley’s Creek, of the 10th Oct.  It is here, as well as at the east side, connected with sandstone.  Flint pebbles, of a red colour, were very abundant at Charley’s Creek, and in the scrub, which I called the Flourspill, as it had made such a heavy inroad into our flour-bags.  The flat on which we encamp, is composed of a mild