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(b) Report of an Investigation conducted by Captains Innes and Brown at the 

 Instance of the Government, held at the Water Police Court on 6th March, 1849, 

 reported in Sydney Morning Herald of the day following. 



(c) Official Announcement by the Colonial Secretary of the Deaths and Disasters, 

 9th March, 1849. Govt. Gazette, Vol. XXV, 1849, p. 394. 



(d) Dispatch, dated 1st October, 1849, by Earl Grey to Sir Charles Fitzroy, 

 Governor of New South Wales, acknowledging the receipt of Papers forwarded by 

 the latter on 25th April. Govt. Gazette, Vol. XXVII, 1850, p. 336. 



(i) Debate, iyth July, 1849 (reported in Sydney Morning Herald of i8th) on 

 Mr.Darvell's Motion to erect a Tablet to the Memory of Kennedy in St. James' Church, 

 Sydney. 



Having carefully perused all the available material, I propose, 

 in the pages which follow, to tell the story as it appears to me, in 

 the light of modern maps. In other words, an attempt is made 

 to ascertain where Kennedy was from day to day and to compare 

 my conclusions with the ideas held by Carron or Jackey-Jackey 

 as to his whereabouts. It must be remembered that although 

 Kennedy was an expert surveyor, and no doubt had provided 

 himself with "blanks" constructed from the then existing Admiralty 

 charts, and plotted his work on these blanks, this material, there 

 is every reason to believe, has been irretrievably lost, as has also 

 his journal. 



Kennedy's party consisted, besides the LEADER, of WILLIAM 

 CARRON, Botanist ; THOMAS WALL, Naturalist ; C. NIBLET, 

 Storekeeper ; JAMES LUFF/ EDWARD TAYLOR and WILLIAM 

 COSTIGAN, Carters ; EDWARD CARPENTER, Shepherd ; WILLIAM 

 GODDARD, THOMAS MITCHELL," JOHN DOUGLAS and DENIS DUNN, 

 Labourers ; and JACKEY-JACKEY, an aboriginal from the Hunter 

 River ; thirteen persons in all. Kennedy seems to have had no 

 misgivings about the unlucky number ! There were also 28 horses, 

 100 sheep, three kangaroo dogs and one sheep-dog. One ton of 

 flour, 600 Ib. of sugar, 90 Ib. of tea, 22 Ib. of gunpowder, 130 Ib. 

 of shot, a quarter-cask of ammunition, 588 feet of tether rope, 

 40 hobble chains and straps, boxes and paper, etc., for preserving 

 specimens, firearms, cloaks, blankets, tomahawks, horse-shoes, 

 cooking utensils, four tents and a canvas sheep-fold constituted the 

 chief items of the load, and there were, besides, 24 pack saddles 

 and harness for nine draught horses. The greater part of the 

 load was to be carried in ONE HEAVY SQUARE CART and TWO SPRING 

 CARTS, while each man had a horse to ride and a spare horse in 

 reserve. Some of the stores, which it was not expected would 

 be required before the arrival of the expedition at Cape York, 

 were repacked and sent on board the " Rattlesnake " on 3Oth May. 

 After a good deal of rehearsal and experiment, A START was made 

 on $th June, with seven pack-horses and three carts, carrying 

 21 cwt., drawn by nine horses. (SEE MAP K.) 



1 Luff had been with Kennedy in 1847, when he traced the course of the Barcoo. 

 a The Mural Tablet in St. James' Church, Sydney, has " J. Mitchell." 



