Scarcely, however, had we indulged in the hope that the Victoria might yet convey the boats many miles into the interior, when a shoal appeared.
PROGRESS OF THE BOATS ARRESTED.
Over this we got tolerably well, but at the end of two miles in an East-South-East direction from Palm Island, all hopes were at an end of proceeding farther in the boats, as for a great extent the river was impassable for them.

We found there was a large sheet of water beyond, and then another dry patch.

It would therefore have been useless labour to attempt dragging the boats over any more of the dry parts.

Two conical-shaped hills, so much alike that we called them the Brothers, bore North by West 1/2 West one mile.
The thermometer was 101 degrees at noon in the shade.

I shot some very large dark-coloured ducks in the afternoon.