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24th December / ?? little they appear to feel the
shortness of the quantity of this [while?] the whole of the
party are in fact in high spirits which must be
and evidently is highly pleasing to the Dr -
a pair of mules ?? ?? ?? to my favourite
black ?? Wommi a /to him/ desirableNew Years christmas present, Busily engaged in making
up my botanical list and find I have collected
and ?? upwards of [50?] different kind of specimens
exclusive of what I have in the ??, found in
the vicinity of Bukkaran{?] Charlies Creek alone I have
also a great number of te seeds to match them. Perry
who is not acquainted with the [bush?] Cost hime
self now the cattle - the Dr now ?? went in quest
of him with the bugles and guns which they blew and
fired which he fortunately heard - Mr Perry mend
a pair of boots for me. he is an excellent companion
25. Christmas day / The only thing which I have to write
in particular on this is [other places??] ?? day is that
it was a ?? the thermometer being at day break
69 - noon 89 - r P.M> 86 - ad thus we have
an extraordinary feed as the Dr promised tapioca
pudding. Took a stroll up the creek and [gathered?] seeds
and specimens of 2 [fresh?] plants.
26 Today Killed another goat. Therm. sunrise 65
noon 82. This morning 1 P.M. 70o Two more black
fellows visited our camp at noon they appeared to
be perfectly wild having not the slightest [knowledge?]
of a word of our language - as few as we could
understand them by signs they had seen two of our
missing mules. the Dr intends [starting tomorrow in
search??] - ? more specimens swelling my
list to 79 kinds
27. The Dr wth the wild black fellows and
Wommi go for the 2 mules and return
at dinner time after a useful ride finding
that they had either not understood the blacks
or that he had ?? them - they certainly [found?]
no track of the mules - ?? brought me
some speciments of ?? - I [also?] find a
new ?? plant - Therm - sunrise 64 - x
noon 89 - It must be understood that glass
is always in the shade - [indecipherable phrase
?? ??
Brush Kangaroo - the two black fellows
still remain with us - with a letter
28 The Dr sent the two wild black fellows [stuck?] in
? left stick to Mr Dennis requesting him to employ
one of his black fellows as an interpreter to see if they
really know anything of our mules - the letter was stuck
in a [cleft?] stick - killed another diseased goat -
which had the [affect] of giving the [whole?] of the party
?? the dysentry or vomiting - the [whole?] of the
party at the camp myself excepted suffering
?? from ?? which ??