Large holes in the banks immediately above the water, were probably inhabited by water rats or lizards.

A common carpet snake was killed.

Whenever we passed through open Vitex scrub, with its stiff loamy soil, we were sure of meeting a great number of the conical constructions of the white ant: they were from one to three feet high, very narrow, and tapering to a sharp point.
April 24 .-- To-day we travelled along the river over an open country, intersected by some gullies; the course of the river was, for about four miles, from north to south, and, at that distance from our camp, was joined by a river coming from the northward, which I now take the liberty of naming the "Perry," after Captain Perry, Deputy Surveyor-General, who has most kindly mapped my route from the rough plans sketched during the journey.

The Burdekin here comes from the westward, and made a large bend round several mountains, composed of quartz porphyry, with a sub-crystalline felspathic paste.

The latitude was 19 degrees 1 minutes (Unclear:)18.
April 25 .-- We travelled almost due west, about nine miles along the river, our latitude being 19 degrees 1 minutes 3 seconds.