April 24.  Camp 55.

We left camp this morning 9.25 and travelled up the river for about seventeen miles.  We encamped 4.55 on the bank of a small creek.  The country we have seen from the path we have traversed, since leaving what I thought was the Alice River, is very good with the exception of a few patches of land too thickly wooded with western-wood acacia.  The land generally is thinly wooded with myall and well grassed with the best grasses.  We came from Camp 54 in about the following courses:  11.30 east for five and three-quarter miles; 12.45, 1.20 south-east and by south for one and a quarter miles; 4.20 east and by south for eight and a half miles; 4.55 south for one and a half miles to camp.  Distance seventeen miles.

April 25.  Camp 56.

We left Camp 55 this morning at 8.23.  When we had journeyed for about twenty miles we reached a creek, which I thought perhaps was a channel of the Barcoo River, and encamped on the northern side of the left bank of the creek.  We came during the forenoon in nearly a south-east direction, and during the afternoon about a point to the eastward of south.  By the latter course we crossed from the left to the right bank of the creek on which we had our two last camps and left it.  The creek was too small to be the Barcoo River, and the ground on both sides of it too high to admit of it being an ana-branch.  To the southward of our path we observed a long range of hills, one of which was remarkable for its tabled summit.  The country we saw was more undulated than that we saw yesterday, but otherwise of a similar description.  We came here in about the following courses:  10.23 south-east for five and a half miles; 11.43 south-south-east for three and a half miles; 2.35 south and by east for four and three-quarter miles; 4.55 south for five and a half miles; 5.15 west and by south for three-quarter miles.  Distance twenty miles.

April 26.  Camp 57.

We left Camp 56 this morning 9.30.  We steered south, and by that course left the small creek on which we had encamped, and reached another creek with here and there water in its channel.  We followed the creek up nearly to its source in the fine range of hills I mentioned in yesterday’s journal.  Having left the creek we came nearly east for three and a half miles to the left bank of a watercourse with plenty of water in it and encamped.  The country we saw today was very rich with undulating features and the best grasses; the timber upon it consisting of myall, western-wood acacia, brigalow, white-wood and box.  The brigalows are few and far between.  The box grows along the watercourses.  We came here from last camp in about the following courses:  2.40 south for ten and three-quarter miles; 3.10 east for one and a quarter miles; 4 east-south-east two and a quarter miles.  Distance fourteen and a quarter miles.

April 27.  Camp 57.

This being Sunday we rested ourselves and our horses.  Yesterday I discovered that I had not repaired my sextant in a satisfactory manner.  The index showed it to be easily put out of adjustment.  I made the meridian altitude of the sun today A.H. 102 degrees 26 minutes; latitude 24 degrees 43 minutes.