Private Mustard being ill, I gave him my horse and tried to walk, but injured myself materially by so doing.

We were obliged to encamp at the head of a large mangrove inlet.
April 8.
It being Sunday I halted all the morning and only started late in the afternoon.

Our route lay through a mountainous country and consequently our progress was slow.

Quartz was here largely developed in rocks.

We halted this evening in a valley surrounded by mountains.
PASS MOUNT LYELL.
April 9.
We started at dawn and soon found that the valley we had encamped in was the true pass across the range of mountains.