274 Kennedy's expedition. 



the river. At half-past eleven a.m. entered the 

 mouth of a river, near the centre of Newcastle 

 Bay J here we lost sig-ht of Albany Island, making- 

 the distance fi'om it about fourteen miles; the 

 entrance of this river is about one mile and a half 

 wide ; on the northern half of the entrance the 

 water is deep, three fathoms ; on the southern side 

 there is a sand bank, nearly dr}^ at low water. 



" From the entrance we went S.S.AV. five miles, 

 when the river narrowed to about the third of a 

 mile, we had from six to two and a half fathoms all 

 the way in. From here we went into the branch 

 of the ri\'er that ran about south, the main river 

 g'oing- west. The entrance to the branch is about 

 two cable's-leng'ths wide, Ave went in a southerly 

 direction about six miles, when the river narrowed 

 to forty feet j here we landed at half-past three p.m. 

 leaving- two hands in charg-e of the boat, walked 

 about two and a half miles, where Jackey found the 

 papers, — they had been pulled out of the hollow 

 trunk where he had placed them, and were much 

 damag-ed, being- saturated with water. We then 

 went half a mile to where Jackey had camped, to 

 look for a pair of compasses he had left : could not 

 find them, but found a note book that Jacke}^ had 

 been drawing* sketches in ; from here we went to 

 another camp to look for the compasses, but did not 

 find them. At half-past five came back to the boat 

 and camped for the nig'ht ; none of us could sleep on 

 account of the mosquitoes and flies, &c. 



