9 .-- In travelling down to the water-hole, where we had met the Blackfellow and his family, we kept a little too much to the westward, in hope of finding a more open country; instead, however, of an improvement, we encountered sandy hills covered with a dense low scrub and cypress-pine.

The latter almost invariably grows on the slight sandstone elevations in a scrubby country.

After surmounting many difficulties, we came upon a broad scrub creek, in the dry bed of which we travelled down to Comet Creek, which we followed, and at last reached our intended camping place.

Our cattle and luggage had suffered severely, and we devoted the next day to sundry repairs.

The weather was very hot: the night clear.