There is another tree marked with an L, eighteen inches long and fourteen inches broad, cut into the wood of a box tree, on the left bank of the Flinders River, about twenty-five to thirty miles below the junction of O'Connell Creek, proving, without doubt, that Leichhardt had gone down the Flinders. There is no mistake about this, as Kirk saw it as he was out looking for a lambing place. There are no other traces about of a camp. It was first seen by one of Hays's stockmen.
Letter not found. For the text given here, see Age (Melbourne) 20 January 1866, p. 6, col. d, where it is introduced as follows: 'A propos of the Leichhardt Search Expedition, the following note has been sent by Mr. Sutherland, through Mr. Daniel Carson, of this city, to Dr. Mueller'. The item is reproduced in various newspapers in Vic and Qld up to April 1866. The other items found have the same introduction, except the Mount Alexander mail, that has '… Carson, of Melbourne,…'.
The author is identified as James Sutherland, who is recorded as being a correspondent of M's in M to J. Casey, 7 June 1873, and who is recalled in an account of western Queensland as being accompanied by Walter Kirk in the area of the Suttor and Flinders Rivers (Townsville daily bulletin, 2 January 1952, p. 4.) The Sutherland mentioned in M to the Editor of the Brisbane courier, May 1865 (in this edition as 65-05-00a) is identified as James Sutherland in Rockhampton bulletin and Central Queensland advertiser, 8 April 1865, p. 2. James Sutherland of the Flinders River also supplied Frederick McCoy with fossils (Herald (Melbourne), 14 February 1867, p. 4; see also Gympie times and Mary River mining gazette (Qld), 24 April 1869, p. 4).
Please cite as “FVM-66-01-00d,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on