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as we proceeded we g^athered nondas^ and lived 

 upon them and the meat 5 we stopped at a little 

 creek and it came on raining", and Costio-an shot 

 himself J in putting- his saddle under the tarpaulin, 

 a string" cauo'ht the trio-o-er and the ball went in 

 under the rio-ht arm and came out at his back under 

 the shoulder ; we went on this morning" all of us, 

 and stopped at another creek in the evening*, and 

 the next morning" we killed a horse named Browney, 

 smoked him that night and went on next day, 

 taking" as much of the horse as we could with us, 

 and went on about a mile and then turned back 

 ag-ain to where we killed the horse, because Costig'an 

 was very bad and in much pain; we went back 

 again because there was no water ; then Mr. 

 Kennedy and I had dinner there, and went on in 

 the afternoon leaving* Dunn, Costig*an, and Luff at 

 the creek. This was at Pudding'-pan Hill, near 

 Shelburne Bay. Mr. Kennedy called it Pudding'- 

 pan Hill. We left some horse meat with the three 

 men at Pudding"-pan Hill, and carried some with us 

 on a pack horse. Mr. Kennedy wanted to make 

 g-reat haste when he left this place, in order to ^et 

 the doctor to g"o down to the men that were ill. 

 This was about three weeks after leaving" Weymouth 

 Bay. One horse was left with the three men at 

 Pudding"-pan Hill, and we (Kennedy and myself) 

 took with us three horses. The three men were to 

 remain there until Mr. Kennedy and myself had 

 gone to and returned from Cape York for them. 



