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reason to believe that it had communication with the lagoon. -
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We dispatched the Boat with three men up the creek while we proceeded by land, in expectation they would be able to join us. -- After traveling about three miles and passing some Ponds with quantities of wild ducks in them but exceeding [indecipherable], we had from the top of a rising ground a view of the large lagoon and were much disappointed in its appearance and extent. It is merely a chain of large fords and forms several small Islands cover'd with reeds. -- The circumference may be 12 or 14 miles, but no part of it is one mile broad. -- From the number of Black Swans and Wild Ducks we saw here -- we had no doubt of killing many -- and with the assistance of the boat provided it arrived we should be able to get them out of the water. -- After waiting 'till late in day and neither learning or seeing any thing of our people with the Boat we concluded they had met with some difficulty in getting up the Creek. -- We therefore returned to our hut, after traveling from nine in the morning 'till half past three in the afternoon without resting or having the least refreshment. To day we heard some Natives, and saw a new canoe on the banks of the Creek, where we expected to have met our boat. From what I observed of Trees cut down by the Natives, which must have been with a much sharper edged tool than what their stone Moga is