ile south by east; at 12.5 made one mile south by east;
at 12.15 made half a mile south by west; at 12.35 made one mile south
half west to watercourse where it has deep reaches of water and banks
about twenty-six feet high. I guessed the last entry of miles as my watch
had run down. We had a bath and started at 1.22. At 2.10 made two miles
and a quarter about south half east along the watercourse to an eastern
channel where the horses got water and we delayed until 2.22; at 2.44
made one mile south-east by south half south over plains; at 3.15 made
one mile and a half south over plains; at 3.32 made three-quarters of a
mile south-south-east over plains; at 4.5 made one mile and a half south
to emu tree, where we stayed to separate the best portions of the emu I
had shot and take them to camp; at 5.10 made one mile and a half north to
Number 36 Camp.

Wednesday January 15. Camp 36, situated on the right bank of Beames
Brook.

Fisherman informed me that he had gone on Monday a long half-day's
journey without finding any watercourse except one trending to the
north-west and which, from his description, I thought might join the one
I had seen about six miles distant. The country he saw in the course of
his ride was well-grassed, lightly timbered plains, the latter stretching
to the north-east. By climbing a tree he observed a range to the
south-east. We left our camp here at 7.25; at 8.48 made three miles and a
half north by west, which took us down rich plains with the river trees
in sight along our course; at 9.45 made two miles and three-quarters
north; at 11.15 made four miles and a half north, which course took us
out of sight of the trees on the river, over a similar country to that I
have described where we stopped for Mr. Allison to take an observation of
the sun, and for Mr. Campbell and Fisherman, who were behind, to come up.
Observations: altitude 86.52, latitude 18 degrees 18 minutes; we started
again at 12.34 p.m.; at 1.17 made two miles north-west to where we
crossed to the left side of eastern channel; at 1.35 made one mile
north-west to watercourse with fine stream of water; at 1.50 made
three-quarters of a mile north, where we watered the horses, and started
again at 4.25; at 4.33 made a quarter of a mile about north where Jemmy
and I encamped last Monday night; at 4.5 made one mile north-north-east
to where we crossed to left side of eastern watercourse; at 5.24 made one
mile and a half north-north-east o