27 .-- During last night a very strong, cold, westerly wind.
After travelling about 3 1/2 miles north, we were stopped by a Bricklow scrub, which compelled us to go to the east and south-east.

I encamped, about three miles north-east by north from my last resting place, and examined the scrub: it was out of the question to cross it.

Mr.Gilbert shot three black cockatoos and a bronze-winged pigeon.
Oct.

28 .-- During the night it was very cold, though no wind was stirring.
In the morning we experienced an easterly breeze.

Travelling to the eastward and east by south, I found that the water-holes outside of the scrub at which we were encamped, changed into a creek with rocky bed, having its banks partly covered with cypress-pine thickets.