258 Kennedy's expedition. 



too weak. I placed mj^self at the camp^ and looked 

 about for the likeliest place to which a corpse would 

 be taken under the circumstances. I went down 

 into a small g'ully^ about sixty yards from the 

 camp j under some small bushes^ in about two feet 

 of water^ I found their bones^ two skulls and some 

 of the larg'er bones^ the smaller ones having most 

 probably been washed away by the flood j the bones 

 were all carefully collected and taken on board. 

 From the position in which these bones were found, 

 agTeeing" with the description g-iven me by Mr. 

 Carron, I feel confident they are the remains of 

 Wall and Niblet. 



I was rather surprised to find some cabbag'e-palm 

 trees gTowing* in the vicinity of the camp j the tops 

 are very nutritious, and would be very desirable for 

 men in a starving- state, had they been aware of it. 

 I picked up part of a key belong-ing' to a chro- 

 nometer. After having" a g-ood look round, we 

 returned to the boats, all tired, from our drenching* 

 and wading' throug-h so much mud and water, and 

 we unfortunately had no provisions of any kind, 

 and had eaten nothing- all day. When we pulled 

 to the entrance of the river it was low water, and 

 there was a bank dry outside of us for upv\^ards of 

 half a mile ; we had no alternative but to wait until 

 the tide flowed. At half-past three p.m., g'ot on 

 board, hoisted the boat in, and prepared to start in 

 the morning'. 



May 4rfh. — At daylight, weighed, with a lig-ht 



