They Had Been At A Large Swamp And A Pond, Connected With The Creek, In Which Charley Declared That He Had Seen A Strange Animal "With Two Horns," And Which Had Deterred Him From Going Into The Water.

As Brown, on the following day, saw a crocodile in the same pond, Charley's imagination had very probably added two horns to his wonderful animal.

CHAPTER XIV

INTERVIEW WITH A NATIVE - DISTRESSING HEAT - A HORSE STAKED: IT DIES - MYRIADS OF FLYING-FOXES - MAGNIFICENT VALLEY - FRIENDLY NATIVES - SHOT EXHAUSTED - INSTINCT OF BULLOCKS - SOUTH ALLIGATOR RIVER - FRIENDLY NATIVES WITH AN ENGLISH HANDKERCHIEF, AND ACQUAINTED WITH FIRE-ARMS - THEIR LANGUAGE - MIRAGE.

Nov. 1. - We reached lat. 14 degrees 16 minutes 17 seconds, having travelled about nine miles north-west by north. A range composed of baked sandstone, approached so close to the banks of "Flying-Fox Creek," that we were obliged to cross the range; to the east-ward of which tea-tree flats extended, with many deep but dry water-holes, fringed with fine drooping tea-trees. The country farther on, was well grassed and lightly timbered. Winding round isolated ranges on a N.N.W. course, we came again on the Pandanus creek, which we followed. This creek was joined by several other sandy creeks, also by dry channels fringed with Pandanus, and by chains of water-holes, in which Typhas (bullrush) indicated the underground moisture. Some long-stretched detached hills were seen to the northward, and a long range to the eastward, trending from south to north.

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