junction of a creek from north.  At 9.35 made one mile north-north-west up the latter creek to where we started for Number 16 Camp without having found water.  At 10.47 made three miles and three-quarters west by north over rich thinly timbered plains, the grass old and dry.  At 11.22 made one mile and a half north-east to our outer track below camp on creek.  At 11.38 made three-quarters of a mile about north-north-east up the creek.  At 11.55 made three-quarters of a mile north to last night’s camp.  At 12.26 p.m. made one mile and a quarter north-east up the creek.  At 1.3 made one mile and a half north to where we supped last night.  At 1.30 made one mile and a quarter north-east at where we stopped and started again at 2 p.m.  At 2.20 made one mile north-east to the plain.  At 3.10 made two miles and a half north.  At 7.15 made ten miles and a half north-east to lookout-tree, which we made steering by compass.  At this place I gave the horses almost all that was left of the water, as I thought that Fisherman would be able easily to lead the way to Camp 16, and I being so confident of this paid no attention to the course that he was leading me.  At 11.30 I found that Fisherman did not know where he was, so I gave my horse his head, thinking he would go to water near Number 16 Camp; but he searched along the bed of a watercourse for water and found a fine waterhole, where we saw a fire on the banks, at which we thought there were probably blacks, as boughs and a net had been recently placed around the water to ensnare large birds.  After we had got a supply of water we watered the horses and went west-north-west about one mile and a half to a point on the plain about half a mile distant from the watercourse, where we hobbled out the horses and stopped till morning.

Saturday December 14.

The watercourse I named Clifton Creek.  At 6.30 a.m.  Fisherman and I left our camp.  At 7 made one mile east-south-east down Clifton Creek to where we passed from left to right bank, which we then followed up a few yards to the junction of a larger creek on the right side, where there is a fine waterhole.  At 7.45 made one mile east-south-east down the Clifton Creek to where we stopped for breakfast, and started again at 9.35.  At 9.42 went quarter mile south-east across a range to a creek with deep empty holes.  At 9.49 went quarter mile south-east to plain.  At 10.40 went two and a half miles south-east to a large river, with large waterholes recently empty, surrounded by tall cabbage, pandanus, and large drooping tea-trees.  I ascertained afterwards that it was the O’Shanassy.  One of the cabbage-trees we cut down to get its centre sprout to eat.  Started again at 11.40.  At 12.13 made three-quarters of a mile south-south-east, passed the junction of two creeks, one from the east and one from the west.  At 12.45 made one mile north-west across a range to dry creek.  From the range we saw the river had a north-north-east course.  At 1.9 made one mile north-west up a barren, rocky, basaltic