2.40 east-south-east four and a quarter miles; 3.30 east-north-east two
and a half miles; 3.45 north-east and by east three-quarters of a mile.

March 15. Camp 26 situated near a creek named by me Sloane Creek, at a
point about three miles south-east from Bramston Range.

Started this morning at 8.15. Having come one mile and a half we reached
a small hill bearing 2 degrees 84 minutes from the south-west end of
Bramston Range and 50 minutes from table ranges up the river. On this
hill Jemmy and I stopped for some time and then proceeded after the main
party. Following their track led us over rich, high, unwooded downs for
five and three-quarter miles to a creek with a shallow broad channel.
This stream evidently flows towards the river. I named it Walker Creek.
After crossing Walker Creek we came over high downs for about twelve
miles, and having found water we encamped. Towards the river the country
is wooded with a kind of myall, but not the drooping acacia. Amongst it
the horses have gone to feed in preference to the open country. The
ground on this side of Walker's Creek is composed of a reddish soil with
occasionally detached pieces of basalt. It is covered with the best
grasses, the highest portions thinly wooded with small trees, amongst
which I observed white-wood, myall, and Port Curtis sandalwood. The Port
Curtis sandalwood has been exported, but as far as I have been able to
learn was not a profitable article. However it is first-rate for
firewood, giving a better light than other woods, and the perfume it
emits is disliked by mosquitoes. From our path today we observed that the
right side of the river was confined by wooded ranges extending without
prominent features from Bramston Range to table ranges near here. We
travelled on the following courses: 8.50 east and by north one and a half
miles to a little hill; 10.15 north-east and by east for three miles;
11.10 east-north-east two and three-quarter miles to Walker Creek; 3.10
north-east twelve miles to encampment. Distance today seventeen and
three-quarter miles.

March 16.

Today Fisherman and I left the party in camp to ascend the lowest down of
the three table ranges on the right bank of the Flinders River. We
reached the left bank of the river in a north-north-east direction in
about two miles and a half. The river has a sandy level bed which is
about eighty yards wide. After crossing the river Fisherman marked a
gumtree growing at the bottom of th