We halted, with abominable water, but excellent food for the animals in the plains behind us.

In continuing our journey, we found several changes take place in the appearance of the creek and its neighbourhood.

The former diminished in size, and at length separated into two distinct channels, choked up, for the most part, with dead bulrushes, but having a few green reeds in patches along it.

The flats on either side became slightly timbered, and blue gum was the prevailing tree.

Crossing one of the channels, we observed every appearance of our near approach to the marshes, the flats being intersected by many little water-runs, such as we had noticed at the bottom of them.