Fisherman I left the party and went a few hundred yards
ahead to a creek full of water to widen with a pick a path up the creek.
While I was doing so Mr. Campbell reported that some of the horses had
gone into the river of their own accord, and one of them was drowned
although Jemmy and he had swum to its assistance. On hearing of this
misfortune I came down to the river, got the two troopers to go and dive
where the mare had disappeared, and they managed to get its saddle and
pack on shore. Fisherman, while the things were being dried, marked the
tree on the point at the junction of the watercourse with the river. The
former I have named Harris Creek. At 11.56 started again at point where
the tree is marked, say half a mile from camp; at 12.2 made half a mile
south-south-east from river up the creek, where we crossed after a delay
of eight minutes; at 12.33 made three-quarters of a mile north to where
we crossed the river; at 1.2 made one mile north down the river; at 1.27
made three-quarters of a mile north-east by north to where we formed our
Number 30 Camp, where the river is apparently often badly watered. At
this part of the river even now it is without a running stream although
recently flooded, and there is an absence of the pandanus, cabbage, and
tall drooping tea-trees which crowded the bed of the river higher up and
are fine signs of the permanence of the water.

Monday January 6. Camp 30.

Started from camp which is situated on left bank of O'Shanassy River at
6.52. At 7.8 made half a mile north-north-east down the left bank of the
river; at 7.40 made one mile and a quarter north-east to where we crossed
a creek near its junction, and also crossed to the right bank of the
river; at 7.57 made half a mile north-east to where we recrossed to left
bank of the river; at 8.15 made half a mile east-north-east to where we
crossed a little creek near its junction. The river is still confined by
barren and stony ranges and has flood-marks from thirty to forty feet
high. Kangaroos are numerous on this part of the country. At 8.43 made
three-quarters of a mile east to where we crossed, near its junction, a
small creek from the north; at 9.12 made one mile and a quarter east by
north to where there are flooded box and drooping tea-trees in the bed of
the river; at 9.25 made half a mile east to where there are cabbage-trees
in the river; at 9.40 made half a mile east to where there are Leichhardt
and cabbage-palm-trees;