48 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



b}' tlie colonists of New South Wales in the historic S. James 

 Church of England, Sydney, built in Governor Macquarie's 

 time in 1820. I am now able to supplement this throiigh the 

 courtesy of the present Rector, the Rev. W. F. Wentworth 

 Sheilds, M.A., with the tablet next to Gilbert's, erected by the 

 Executive ( rovernment to the memory of Kennedy, who was 

 killed by the natives, and those who perished on the same ex- 

 pedition. In contradistinction to the Gilbert memorial tablet 

 of which the tent, tree, and recumbent figure of Gilbert are in 

 fairly high relief, the figures in the Kennedy mural tablet are 

 in intaglio. It represents Kennedy, recently speared by the 

 natives, dying in the arms of the faithful Jackey Jackey, while 

 in the background are several hostile savages brandishing their 

 weapons. 



