We left Camp 48 this morning 9.30.  It is situated on the right side of a long hole of water on the eastern channel of the river at a place bearing north half west from Mount Pring.  We steered for the eastern side of the Trimpie Range.  When we had journeyed about four miles we reached a creek showing extensive flood-marks and with heaps of mussel shells on its banks but very little water in its channel.  I named it Dunsmore Creek.  Led by Wittin we followed up the creek for about seven miles and encamped.  Several emus seen today, but they were so wild that none of us succeeded in shooting them.  The ground is of a level character on both sides of Dunsmore Creek; the soil rich with good grass but rather dry for want of rain.  Box-trees grow near the creek.  Back from the south bank of the creek the country is wooded with myall and western- wood acacia.  From the other bank of the creek there are very few trees of any description.  At the place where we struck Dunsmore Creek I made the meridian altitude of the sun 111 degrees 49 minutes, the latitude A.H. 24 degrees 16 minutes 16 seconds.  We steered from our last camp on the river to here on the following courses:  11.7 south-east half south for four miles to Dunsmore Creek; 1.40 east-south-east for three and three-quarter miles; 3.15 south-east by east for two and three-quarter miles; 3.40 south and by west for one mile.  Distance come today eleven miles.

April 16.

Camp 49 is situated at Dunsmore Creek at a place bearing north-east from a hill about three miles distant and north-north-west from a distant range named by me Mount Johnstone.  We tried very hard to persuade Wittin to show us all the way to Barcoo River.  He promised to do so, but after Jackey and Jemmy went for the horses he left the camp as if he were only going down to the creek but he did not make his appearance again.  Jemmy said his reason for not going to Barcoo River was that the blacks there would kill him if they found him in their country.  When we had followed the creek up about thirteen miles to near its source in Johnstone Range we had to return four miles to get water for our encampment as there was none in the upper part of the creek.  We saw several emus today but as usual we did not manage to shoot any.  The ground we saw from our path is rich, chiefly wooded with myall; the herbage good but rather dry from the want of rain.  In the middle of the day, when we had gone back for a considerable distance on the north-east side of the creek, we got to the edge of rich unwooded downs.  We steered on the following courses:  11.10 south-east for three and three-quarter miles; at 1 south-east for one and three-quarter miles; 1.22 south-south-east for one mile; 1.50 south by west for one and a half miles back to the creek; 4 south-east for five and a quarter miles up to the creek; 5.49 north-west for three and three-quarter miles down the creek to camp.  Distance seventeen miles.

April 17.