At this angle a large creek joined it from the south; another instance of creeks joining larger channels, coming in a direction almost opposite to their course.
Two other creeks joined the Burdekin during this stage; one from the south-west, and another from the north.

The grass was particularly rich at these junctions.

The river became considerably narrower, but still had a fine stream.

Thunder-storms had probably fallen higher up its course, causing a fresh; for its waters, hitherto clear, had become turbid.
Narrow patches of brush were occasionally met with along its banks, and I noticed several brush trees, common in other parts of the country.
Besides the clustered fig, and another species with rough leaves and small downy purple fruit, there were a species of Celtis; the Melia Azederach (White Cedar); a species of Phyllanthus, (a shrub from six to ten feet high); an Asclepiadaceous climber, with long terete twin capsules; and several Cucurbitaceae, one with oblong fruit about an inch long, another with a round fruit half an inch in diameter, red and white, resembling a gooseberry; a third was of an oblong form, two inches and a half long and one broad; and a fourth was of the size and form of an orange, and of a beautiful scarlet colour: the two last had an excessively bitter taste.

The night and morning were cloudy, with a southerly wind, but it cleared up at eleven o'clock.