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

 fell down^ me and all ; 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 ; we 

 left him there ; 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 someAvhere ; 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 j 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 dayj we travelled on all day till 

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

 Albany j 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 5 we stopped there a 

 little while ', all the meat was g-one 5 I tried to g'et 

 some fish but could not 5 we Avent on in the after- 

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

 g'ood lot of blacks, and we camped j the blacks all 

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

 and we thought they were fi'iendly, and Mr. 

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

 one asked me if I had any thing* to g'ive away, and 

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



