Chapter 5

MAP OF THE COUNTRY AND THE ROUTES BETWEEN THE MARANOA AND MOUNT MUDGE, AND THOSE ALONG THE RIVER VICTORIA AS DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER VII.

My departure.--A team of bullocks sent back for.--Good grassy country.-- Ride north-west during rain.--Hostile natives menace our camp.--The party crosses Possession Creek.--A small river found.--Another ride to the north-west.--Banks of the little river.--Mount Owen seen.--Travel towards it.--Flank movement to the Maranoa for water.--None found in its bed.-- View from Mount Owen.--Names of localities on the map.--Scarcity of water impedes our progress.--Water found in rocky gullies.--Excursion northward.--Mount Aquarius.--View from northern summit of Mount Owen.-- Progress through a broken country.--Night without water.--Another route explored amongst the gullies.--Plants found near Mount Owen.--Route for the advance of the carts.--View of mountains--from Mount P. P. King.-- View from western extremity of Table Land of Hope.--Mount Faraday.-- Strange Hakea.--A running stream discovered.--Return towards the camp.-- The party with the carts advances.--(Pyramids, Plate IV., page 222.)-- Course of the new found river.--New plants.--A large lake receives the river.--(Plate V., John Martin's Range, page 225.)--The outlet dry.-- Enter a scrub.--Return to the Salvator.--Discovery of the Claude.--Rich soil on the downs.--The party moves to the Claude.--Cross that river. Fossil wood.--Again shut up in a rocky country.--Slow progress in a gully.--Balmy Creek.--New plants.--Emerge from the ravines.--Tower Almond.--(Pl. 6. page 237.)--View from Mount Kilsyth.--View from Mount Mudge.--Two natives met.--Remarkable tree