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west side of the river, in the secluded chasms of these rocks were numerous aboriginal paintings which appeared to be of great ant-iquity, and I do not attribute them to the present representations of the Black race.
Friday 17th. This morning I de-cided there was no possibility of finding a practicable pack route to the west or nor-west, and resolved to strike across to our first camp on the Eastern Riv spend a couple of days looking at the country to the north of that place and then return to Wyndham. While Fred rode ahead to see which was the best route I went up and took some sketches of the native drawings. The white ants had made a main road over one of the drawings