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the afternoon we g'ot on clear g-round^ and the horse 

 fell down, me and all j the horse lay upon my rig-ht 

 hip. Here Mr. Kennedy g'ot off his horse and 

 moved my horse from my thig'h ; we stopped there 

 that nig-ht^ and could not g-et the horse up ; we 

 looked to him in the morning- and he was dead j we 

 left him there j we had some horse meat left to eat, 

 and went on that day and crossed a little river and 

 camped. The next day we went a g'ood way ; Mr. 

 Kennedy told me to g-o up a tree to see a sandy 

 hill somewhere ; I went up a tree, and saw a sandy 

 hill a little way down fi'om Port Albany. That 

 day we camped near a swamp ; it was a very rainy 

 day. The next morning- we went on, and Mr. 

 Kennedy told me we should g-et round to Port 

 Albany in a day; we travelled on all day till 

 twelve o'clock (noon), and then we saw Port 

 Albany; then he said, "There is Port Albany, 

 Jackey — a ship is there — you see that island there," 

 pointing to Albany Island ; this was when we were 

 at the mouth of Escape River ; we stopped there a 

 little while ; all the meat was g-one ; I tried to g-et 

 some fish but could not ; we went on in the after- 

 noon half a mile along- the river side, and met a 

 g-ood lot of blacks, and we camped ; the blacks all 

 cried out '^powad powiid," and rubbed their bellies; 

 and we thoug-ht they were fi-iendly, and Mr. 

 Kennedy g-ave them fish-hooks all round; every 

 one asked me if I had any thin^ to g'ive away, and 

 I said, no ; and Mr. Kennedy said, g-ive them your 



