We cut off as much of the flesh as the dogs and ourselves required for two days and left the rest in the forest.
We halted for the night on a small stream, the only one I had seen since we quitted the Williams.
COUNTRY UPON THE HARVEY RIVER.
Our departure was delayed on the morning of the 20th for about an hour from being unable to find one of the horses which had strayed away in the night, but, the fugitive being at length discovered and brought back, we started and made nine miles before breakfast.

We then travelled nine and a half miles more, when we came upon the river Harvey near its source.
The character of the country we had travelled over since entering the mountains was monotonous in the extreme.

It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.

On this tableland there was little or no herbage; the lower vegetation consisting principally of a short prickly scrub, in some places completely destroyed by the native fires; but the whole country was thickly clothed with mahogany trees, so that in many parts it might be called a dense forest.

These mahogany trees ascended, without a bend or without throwing off a branch, to the height of from forty to fifty feet, occasionally much more, and the ground was so encumbered by the fallen trunks of these forest trees that it was sometimes difficult to pick a passage between them.