The remains of some old spears were also lying about, but the natives themselves were not visible.
Immediately after breakfast I ascended a hill to see if we could in any way get clear of the deep stream on the banks of which we had breakfasted.

The Glenelg was distant about three miles to the south, and I found that, in order to disengage ourselves from the waters which almost encompassed us, we must turn off to the north-west, and thus almost double back on our former track, as there was no other resource.

I returned at once to the party, and we spent the rest of the day in crossing two deep streams, and then proceeded about a mile to the eastward, where we halted for the night on the bank of a rocky watercourse, but not containing a drop of water.

The timber today was larger than I had yet seen it, affording many new kinds, and one in particular, resembling in appearance and quality the English ash.
March 9.
We moved through a low country, densely vegetated, and still abounding in deep sluggish streams, almost unapproachable, on account of a dwarf bamboo and other tropical plants which clothed their margins.

Some of these streams were twenty feet deep and upwards, and looked more like canals than natural watercourses.
CASCADE OF THE RIVER.
The point where we halted for the night was not very distant from the river, for its roaring, as it forced itself over a rapid, could be distinctly heard.