232 Kennedy's expedition. 



kiiife^ Jackey ; this fellow on board was the man I 

 g-ave the knife to ; I am sure of it j I know him 

 well ; the black that was shot in the canoe was the 

 most active in urg-ing- all the others on to spear Mr. 

 Kennedy ; I g"ave the man on board my knife ; we 

 went on this day, and I looked behind, and they 

 were g-etting" up their spears, and ran all round the 

 camp which we had left ; I told Mr. Kennedy that 

 ver}^ likely those black fellows would follow us, and 

 he said, " No, Jackey, those blacks are very 

 friendly j" I said to him " I know these black 

 fellows well, they too much speak*" we went on 

 some two or three miles and camped j I and Mr. 

 Kennedy watched them that nig-ht, taking- it in 

 turns ever}^ hour all nig-ht ; by-and-by I saw the 

 black fellows ; it was a moonlight night ; and I 

 walked up to Mr. Kennedy, and said to him, there 

 is plenty of black fellows now ; this was in the 

 middle of the night ; Mr. Kenned}^ told me to get 

 my gun read}" ; the blacks did not know where we 

 slept, as we did not make a fire ; we both sat up 

 all night j after this, daylight came, and I fetched 

 the horses and saddled them • then we went on a 

 good way up the river, and then we sat down a 

 little Avhile, and we saw three black fellows coming 

 along our track, and they saw us, and one fellow 

 ran back as hard as he could run, and fetched up 

 plenty more, like a flock of sheep almost j I told 

 Mr. Kennedy to put the saddles on the two horses 

 and go on, and the blacks came up, and they 



