At our present encampment, several of a species of wallabie, very much resembling a hare in flavour, were shot by Mr.Scott, but hitherto we had not succeeded in getting a kangaroo.
July 1 .-- To-day we travelled through a similar country to that we were in yesterday, consisting of open plains and occasionally low scrub.
Kangaroos abounded in every direction.

Our stage was eighteen miles to a watercourse called by me the "Reedy water holes," from the circumstance of reeds growing around the margin of the water.

Upon arriving at this place I was surprised to find a strongly running stream, where formerly there had only been a reedy pond, although the two last watercourses we had encamped at had been much reduced and dried up.

When I had been here in 1839, they were the running streams, and this only a pool, whilst singularly enough there did not appear to have been more rain at one place than the other.
We were now in full view of Spencer's gulf, but as yet could observe no signs of the WATERWITCH, which was to meet us at the head of the gulf with additional stores.

At night I observed the latitude by altitude of a Bootis to be 32 degrees 41 minutes 28 seconds S.
July 2 .-- We moved on for 15 miles over extensive plains, covered principally with Rhagodia, and in some places stony, and halted early in the afternoon at a large dry watercourse, coming out from Flinders range.
Though there was no water in this channel below the base of the hill, on sending a party a mile and a half up it with spades and buckets, we got, by digging in the gravelly bed, as much as sufficed for ourselves and horses.