ree miles.

May 4.

As this was Sunday we rested ourselves and the horses. I made the
latitude 25 degrees 36 minutes 51 seconds.

May 5.

We left Camp 62 this morning at 9.15. This camp is situated on the bank
of the river. In the forenoon we proceeded due south. In the afternoon we
had to travel considerably to the westward of south to keep near the
river. When we had ridden about twenty and a half miles we camped on the
western side of a shallow waterhole in an eastern channel of the river.
Near the river the flats were good. On them the grass was excellent, with
a good deal of cotton-bush and saltbush amongst it. The back country was
sandy, having kangaroo-grass upon it and wooded with broad-leaved box,
broad-leaved ironbark, bloodwood, and mulga. The river was well watered
till we came within a few miles of the camp, where it divided into a
number of shallow channels. About seven and a half miles south of last
camp I made the meridian altitude of the sun A.H. 95 degrees 39 minutes,
the latitude 25 degrees 41 minutes. We came here from last camp in the
following courses: 11.35 south for seven and a half miles; 2.3
south-south-west for four and a half miles; 2.33 south-west for one and a
half miles; 3.8 south-west half south for one and a half miles; 3.47
south for one and a quarter miles; 5.16 south and by west for three and a
half miles; 5.30 west-south-west three-quarters of a mile. Distance
twenty and a half miles.

May 6.

We started from Camp 63 this morning at 8.33. We left the river, and
after we had journeyed about twenty-five miles slightly southward of east
we found water and encamped. After leaving the river flats the country
was poor. The soil was of a reddish colour and although sandy was very
hard. It was wooded with broad-leaved box and mulga scrub. In the first
part of the way in many places it was well covered with kangaroo grass,
but in the last part of the journey it was too scrubby to be well
grassed. When we had gone about eight and a half miles we crossed a low
sandstone range; until we reached it we neither saw water nor the
slightest sign of a watercourse. In this day's journey we saw more
kangaroo and wallaby than on any previous occasion, but we were so eager
to get water that we did not try to shoot them. We came here in about the
following courses: 11.10 east-south-east eight and a quarter miles to the
range; 2.10 east-south-east eight and a half miles; 4.33 east six and a
half mil