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At eight miles we passed a water-hole in some granite rocks, called Gnaragnunging.
Dense acacia and cypress thickets most of the way. 5th. Steering in a northerly direction for about twelve miles, we reached Mount Churchman, or Geelabbing, an immense bare granite hill, and camped, with plenty of feed and water.
At five miles passed a spring called Coolee.
Country very dense and scrubby; no feed in any of the thickets. From the summit of Mount Churchman, Ningham of Mr.Monger, or Mount Singleton of Mr.A.C.Gregory, bore North 312 degrees 30 minutes East magnetic.
This evening a party of nine natives (friends of our native Jemmy) joined us, who state that a long time ago a party of white men and horses died at a place called Bouincabbajibimar, also that a gun and a number of other articles are there, and volunteer to accompany us to the spot. 6th. Left Mount Churchman in company with the nine natives, and travelled about North-North-West for ten miles to a small water-hole called Woodgine, thence in a northerly direction to a branch of Lake Moore, which we crossed without difficulty, and, following along its north shore for three miles, we bivouacked at a spring close to the lake called Cundierring, with splendid feed around the granite rocks. 7th. Steering in a northerly direction for eleven miles, through dense thickets of acacia and cypress, we reached some granite rocks with water on them, called Curroning, and bivouacked.
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