Jan. 31. Mr. Simmons turned up tempo. He took me to call upon various people, beginning with the mayor, Mrs. H.A. Jeffries; Mr. F. Tardine, Headmaster of the Rockhampton boys grammar school, Mr. Town clerk [illegible] alderman; [illegible] and Mr. F. M. Allen, store-merchant who owns a quarry at Gracemere (where he claims there are "kangaroo rats" (meaning Aggrypnum?)) We are also tracking down two naturalist brothers named Vallis:- E.C. Vallis (entomology), Berserker St., R. and R.E. Vallis (Mammals), Stanford St., R. The latter is for the moment at Yeppoon, wither we go tomorrow on the way to Byfield. In the afternoon we drove at a dozen miles along the "wester- nord" and turned off S.W. 2 miles about to Mr. Allen's quarry at Stanwell. I took along my hammock [illegible] the night then as I wanted both to pick up my traps very early and to do some night hunting. We walked up to the quarry. I set 15 minitrops and 5 sat traps there. Signs (durphip) of rock wallabies were plentiful over and under the piles of loose "carboniferous" sandstone. But when I walked up there that night I saw no trace of them. The quarry has been abandoned for many years and quite thick young trees have grown up between the railroad ties. "Rosewood" (Eucalyptus sp.) is common there. The area as a whole is quite wild but absolutely dry at present. Two traps in the creek bed by camps produced nothing. A slight scent from some of the quarry traps. Mr. Allen told me two old "battlers" who lived near them, interested respectively in gardening and alcohol. They quarrelled all the time. One used to eat the wildly carcasses Allen shot. Sun. Feb. 12. Had a queer night's lay at S.15- to collect the traps. Simmons came at 7. Had bad cake & water for supper & breakfast. Simmons took me back to the Post Office in Belfast (Sect.) & to sleep my mare. The quarry was in Eucalyptus country - very dry weather very. A track of the land near Rockhampton is dried up towards. Some old oak trees - perhaps parts of the Dittony River.