25 .-- We returned to Brown's Lagoons, and entered our camp just as our companions were sitting down to their Christmas dinner of suet pudding and stewed cockatoos.

The day was cloudy and sultry; we had had a heavy thunder-storm on Christmas eve.
Dec.

26 .-- During the night, scud passed from the east; in the morning we had some heavy showers without wind; it cleared up at ten o'clock, and we took advantage of four hours fair weather to travel on.

We again passed the huts of the natives, and encamped about seven miles farther down the creek.

We were, however, scarcely housed, when heavy showers of rain began to fall, and rendered the soil, which was a stiff loam, heavy and boggy.
Dec.