At six miles we struck another creek with a broad and grassy bed, on the banks of which we halted, at a small and muddy pool of water.
The trees on this creek were larger than usual and beautifully umbrageous.

It appeared as if coming from the N.E., and falling to the N.W.There were many huts both above and below our bivouac, and well-trodden paths from one angle of the creek to the other.

All around us, indeed, there were traces of natives, nor can there be any doubt, but that at one season of the year or other, it is frequented by them in great numbers.

From a small contiguous elevation our view extended over an apparently interminable plain in the line of our course.

That of the creek was marked by gum-trees, and I was not without hopes that we should again have halted on it on the 21st, but we did not, for shortly after we started it turned suddenly to the west, and we were obliged to leave it, and crossed successive plains of a description similar to those we had left behind, but with little or no vegetation upon them.