My eyes were swollen and very sore, and altogether I was scarcely able to attend to any thing or employ myself in any profitable way.
August 20 .-- Some slight showers during the night made the weather cool and pleasant, the day too was cloudy, and I was enabled to occupy myself in charting, working out observations, etc.

whilst Mr.Scott, by shooting, supplied us with some wallabies.

This animal is very like a rabbit when running, and quite as delicate and excellent in eating.
August 21 .-- Not having seen the natives for the last two days, I thought I might venture to explore the watercourse we were encamped upon, and set off on horseback immediately after breakfast, accompanied by Mr.Scott.
We traced up its stony and rugged bed for about seven miles among the hills, to a point where the scenery was peculiarly grand and sublime.

The cliffs rose perpendicularly from the channel of the watercourse to a height of from six to eight hundred feet, towering above us in awful and imposing prominencies.

At their base was a large pool of clear though brackish water; and a little beyond a clump of rushes, indicating the existence of a spring.