In the evening, the kangaroo fly (a small brown fly) became very troublesome, annoying us in great numbers, and warning us that rain was about to fall.
At night it came in frequent though moderate showers.

We got very much wetted, but our fire was good, and we did not suffer so much from the cold as the damp, which affected me with cramp in the limbs, and rheumatism.
May 29 .-- After breakfasting upon a spoonful of flour a-piece, mixed with a little water and boiled into a paste, we again proceeded.

At ten miles we came to a small salt water stream, running seawards; in passing up it to look for a crossing place, Wylie caught two opossums, in the tops of some tea-trees, which grew on the banks.

As I hoped more might be procured, and perhaps fresh water, by tracing it higher up, I took the first opportunity of crossing to the opposite side, and there encamped; Wylie now went out to search for opossums, and I traced the stream upwards.

In my route I passed several very rich patches of land in the valleys, and on the slopes of the hills enclosing the watercourse.