Our distance made good this day was twelve miles and a quarter.
The labours of the 16th commenced at half past five, and for some time the difficulty of getting the boats over the rapids was equal to what we experienced the day before.

Having passed a small brook, however, termed _Half-way Creek_, the river became deeper, and although rapid, it was smooth enough to be named by our Orkney boatmen _Still-water_.

We were further relieved by the Company's clerks consenting to take a few boxes of our stores into their boats.

Still we made only eleven miles in the course of the day.
The banks of Hill River are higher, and have a more broken outline, than those of Steel or Hayes' Rivers.

The cliffs of alluvial clay rose in some places to the height of eighty or ninety feet above the stream, and were surmounted by hills about two hundred feet high, but the thickness of the wood prevented us from seeing far beyond the mere banks of the river.
_September 17_ .-- About half past five in the morning we commenced tracking, and soon came to a ridge of rock which extended across the stream.