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3 [Borngerra?]. 4 [Wonganja?], 5 [Gundakul is Condamine??]
No 3 the Dr takes to be what he calls bottle tree creek in his [?]
expidition - The Doctor undertakes to to the
22_ commenced ?? a book which I set apart for
my collection of ?? and in which I ?? arrange
them as I pass them by. Thermometer sunrise 65
noon 89, sunset - Killed another sheep. Charlies
creek has risen considerably this last two days and
the Black fellow who has stayed with us this last few
days this morning departed. I gave him an old penny
piece in which I had scratched his name together with
the initials of the doctor's and my own he seemed appeared
to be highly pleased with it, it would appear to have
been the first piece of money he had seen. He
particularly desired us to follow the course as far as
we could and gestured his signs of the condamine until reaching
one of the water courses which he had marked out to us
before - He appeared to imply that by going to the
N ? ? ? we should fall in with wild black fellows
on going he particularly requested that Mr Mann and
myself would accept of a similar [favour?] to the one
made to us on their coming to our camp. he appeared to
be much hurt at our again refusing to accept if his offer
took a stroll for a few miles and found several new
leguminous plants as also a new stackhouseice and
? - the goats flesh appeares to not to agree with
any of our party excepting the Dr and myself - causing
?? in the horses - Nothing more heard of our
missing mules and the Dr thinks ? if they are not found
prior to Mr Hely's returning eating and using this
flour and sugar as fast as possible as we ?? them
have sufficient mules to take the ?? of the strays
tried burying meat unde ground as a preventative against flies
a suggestion of mine - we found smoking not an answer -
23_ Took a Botanical stroll accompanied by Mr Mann to [relieve?]
the tedium of my long sojourn here and collected some
seeds of leguminous plants - this morning the Dr and myself
[put by?] and arranged our first batch of specimens [agreeably?]
to the natural system ?? my Botanical Journal _
Therm - Sunrise 60 - noon 88 - Sundown flies/common house
and small sandflies ?? troublesome - 16 of our goats una
ble to go our to fee from footrot - all the party anxious to
make a fresh start -
? The Dr and Mr Mann ride to ?? Lagoon and return
at 4 P.M. brining with them some rare species
of Hibiscus, [Rodaceons ?? etc. I immediately [put?] them
in the [prep?] - they speak of their journey as being through
?? scrub from which they brought the specimens
during their ?? the creek had suddenly risen they
had to swim their horses through it, Mr Mann
took a sketch of our camping ground.
another goat was killed. this is christmas eve
and the Dr has promised us a first rate tapioca
pudding for tomorrow. and as the Dr found on
his way to Kent Lagoon a duck nest of 9 eggs, ([exac
tly?] one for each of the party) we may calculate ? may
calculate upon having a first rate feed _ Thermo
day break 60 - noon 82, Sundwon [78?] , altho each
mans allowance of [Bread?] is but the ???
fat cake daily it is [gratifying?] to ?? ??
79 + 2?