There was plenty of dead wood upon it and it was surrounded by richly-grassed flats, whilst from the base gushed forth a clear spring, which then murmured along a purling brook, traversing the flat on which the ponies were tethered.
SNAKE AND KANGAROO.
Close to this spot the attention of Mr.Lushington was drawn to a curious misshapen mass which came advancing from some bushes with a novel and uncouth motion.

He fired and it fell, and on going up to it he found that it was a small kangaroo enveloped in the folds of a large snake, a species of Boa.

The kangaroo was now quite dead, and flattened from the pressure of the folds of the snake which, being surprised at the disturbance it met with, was beginning to uncoil itself, when Mr.
Lushington drew out a pistol and shot it through the head.

It was of a brownish yellow colour and eight feet six inches long.

The kangaroo we found very good eating; and Mr.Walker, who ate a portion of the snake, considered it to be as great a delicacy as an eel, but rather tougher.
There fortunately was an elevated pinnacle of rocks on the rising ground upon which we were encamped; and from the top of these I was able in the course of the day to get bearings and angles to many important objects; I could also see many fixed points in my survey, so that the day could not be considered as altogether a lost one.
CONDITION OF THE PONIES.
March 18.
Throughout the whole of this day the rain poured in torrents so that the ponies, notwithstanding the goodness of the feed, began again to suffer from cold and exposure to the weather.