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by leading our mules through a tolerably shallow place. I kept again to the Northern and having past scrub [indecipherable] ground we came out into a fine large place several miles long and [?] broad where we crossed it. I now commenced to west [indecipherable], to which I was compelled besides by the dense scrub of Acacia of [indecipherable] creek pp. about 2½ miles farther I came again into open Silver leaved Iron Bark forest, with very rotten ground, which I kept to [indecipherable] which course brought me to the River. We are not very far from Blackfellow Cook Camp, if I am not mistaken. I should say, we seem about 8 miles North by West, if not due North. The morning was cloudy and travelling very agreeable. The sandflies have almost disappeared, the river rain having filled all the moist grounds on which they were principally bred. On the plain and in the forest a some leguminous 3 leaved plant 1½ feet high was abundant. The small red blossom is fasciculate or in shortened racines in the axils the 4 ridged short pod is 2 seeded, seeds [indecipherable]. Another plant, [indecipherable] but low and over the ground with yellow blossoms 5 sepals valonte [indecipherable] 5 yellow petals, more than 12 [indecipherable], 3 locular erect sepals & stigma 3 lobed, the loculi many seeded; the seed [indecipherable] long 1 -- 1½ inch with many seeds in [indecipherable] - derma [Zelanica?] was found again in [indecipherable] :- a great number of grasshoppers, mostly yellow and dotted {Acridinus} and one very large Maruti were collected. A flying Squirrel { the small grey one} was killed last night by Brown. A small brown snake with a rather dark head was killed by Henri. We lost our dayly [daily] provision bag from one of the mules and Henri and Brown are gone to find it on the condition of a general Tabioca feed at our arrival on the [indecipherable], which will probably be a day after tomorrow. The species of [gravia?] which grows here seems rather a different species [indecipherable] was observed [indecipherable]
in the Sesbania grounds but much rarer than the latter, a greyish green [indecipherable] plant grows