I therefore determined to trace the creek down, in the hope that it would favour my advance with the party into the interior.

On the 17th, therefore, leaving Joseph to take care of Punch, I mounted my horse, and with Mr.Stuart and Flood, rode away to the westward.

At first the creek held a course between S.W.
and W.S.W.occasionally spreading over large flats, but always reforming and increasing in size.

It ran through a flat valley, bounded by sand hills, against which it occasionally struck.

The soil of the valley was not bad, but there was little or no vegetation upon it.