The whistling duck, so called because of the whistling noise made with its wings when flying, was shot here, and a grey parrot was caught alive.

Mr.Barrallier shot a rare cockatoo.* (* It was stuffed and afterwards given to General Davies, R.A., by Governor King.) The wet weather afterwards gave little chance of meeting with birds, and the explorers made their way through the woods until they reached an extensive level country.

This plain extended out of their sight on the one side and on the other was bounded by hills.

Paths beaten down by kangaroos crossed and recrossed it.

The face of the country was almost everywhere level and productive, free from swamp and secured from inundation.
Grant thus describes the journey back to the ship: "We returned to the river-side and ordered the boat to drop lower down a few miles through a forest of stately timber trees.