As the road was indistinct Messrs. Williams kindly accompanied us to the stage, about two and a half miles this side of the station, where they showed us the tree marked by Mr. Kennedy K XIX.  The horsemanship and bushmanship displayed by these young Australians were very remarkable.  A large portion of my life has been spent in the bush, yet dray-tracks that I could only follow at a few places they evidently considered at all places a plain road.

May 24.  About half a mile below the tree marked by Mr. Kennedy K XXI.

This morning we left our last camp at 9.15.  When we had travelled down on the east bank of the river about twenty-eight miles, at 3.50 in the afternoon, we reached here.  On the bank there is a station occupied by Mr. Con, and on the opposite bank a station occupied by Mr. Gallagher.  The country we passed over today is as fine, rich and well-grassed as any person could wish for pastoral purposes.  A few weeks ago the hut-keeper, an inoffensive old man who thought the blacks were harmless, was killed and shockingly mangled by them, and the hut robbed, in the absence of the stockman.  With the contents of a bottle of rum we had long preserved, in case it might be wanted for medicinal purposes, we drank the health and many returns of the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Sunday May 25.  Warrego River, about half a mile below the tree marked by Mr. Kennedy K XXI.

We rested ourselves and the horses.  This morning I gave the manager of stock here twenty rounds of cartridges, a few bullets, and a few caps for a breach-loading rifle that I had sold him.  The rifle is one I had borrowed from Mr. Bourne for my last expedition, but as it was injured in the service I promised to replace it.  Its original cost was 15 pounds 10 shillings, but I sold it for a lower price, namely, 10 pounds.  We followed the road which came down the eastern bank of the river over well-grassed rich level country and sandy ridges for about twelve miles.

May 26.  Cunnamulla, Warrego River.

We followed the road down the river for about thirty-five miles from the cattle stations, near Mr. Kennedy’s 21st camp.

Tuesday May 27.  Wooroorooka, Warrego River.

We continued following the road down the river till we reached Wooroorooka.  This run is occupied by a herd of horses belonging to T. Danger, Esquire.  Yesterday and today we travelled each day about seven and a half hours.  The distance is called seventy miles.  The country we saw between Cunnamulla and Wooroorooka was wet thinly-wooded plains intersected by ana-branches of the river and by sandhills.  At Wooroorooka I met a gentleman called Mr. Birch who at one time very ably assisted Mr. Stutchburgh in making a geological survey of a great part of Australia.  To him Mr. Bourne and I are greatly indebted for giving us much intelligence of events that have taken place since we left Brisbane last August.  I learn from him that he had travelled the distance from the boundary line of New South Wales to Wooroorooka, and found it was five and three-quarter miles.