Sky cloudy; wind north-east; thermometer 80 degrees at 2 o'clock; the sunshine plant (Mimosa terminalis) was frequent on the black soil; a Swainsonia; an Anthericum, with allium leaf and fine large yellow blossoms; and another species with small blossoms, (Stypandra).
Oct.

9 .-- Commenced with cloudy weather, threatening rain.

It cleared up, however, about 10 o'clock, and we had a very warm day.

We followed the course of the river for some time, which is fringed with Myal scrubs, separated by hills with fine open forest.

Finding that the river trended so considerably to the northward [It seems that NORTHWARD here is merely miswritten for WESTWARD .-- (ED.)], we left it at a westerly bend, hoping to make it again in a north-west direction.