CHAPTER XXXII 



KENNEDY'S EXPEDITION, 1848, continued 

 FROM THE PALMER TO THE PASCOE 



LEAVE THE PALMER, 17x11 SEPTEMBER, 1848. ON "CONGLOMERATE" TABLELAND. 

 ON PACIFIC (PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY) WATERS. HEADS OF KENNEDY RIVER. 

 THE BELIEF THAT KENNEDY RAN THIS RIVER DOWN TO THE OCEA'N is ERRONEOUS. 

 WANGOW CREEK, 22ND AND 23RD SEPTEMBER. JACK'S TRACK CROSSES KENNEDY'S. 

 GREAT HEAT. THE " CONGLOMERATE " RANGE. DOWN WARNER RIVER. SALT 

 WATER. LOST SHEEP. HORSEFLESH, A LITTLE FLOUR AND A LITTLE GAME. 

 NATIVES BURNING GRASS ON PLAINS. MEN AND HORSES EXHAUSTED. JANE'S 

 TABLELAND SEEN. SALTWATER CREEK (6TH OCTOBER). NATIVE CAMP INSPECTED. 

 STONE OVENS, NETS AND BOTTLE-GLASS. ANNIE RIVER. NATIVES FOLLOW AND 

 THROW SPEARS AND ARE DRIVEN BACK. NATIVES VISIT CAMP AND FETCH WATER. 

 MANGROVES ON SHORE OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY. USELESS TO FORCE A WAT 

 TO THE BAY, AS THE " BRAMBLE " MUST HAVE LEFT. FURTHER LOSSES AMONG 

 HORSES, WHICH ARE CHIEFLY DRIVEN ON FOR FOOD. BAGGAGE LIGHTENED. 

 STEWART RIVER. NORTHWARD ON EASTERN SIDE OF FUTURE ROCKY RIVER GOLD- 

 FIELD. TRACK OF A HURRICANE. UP NISBET VALLEY. MEN DESPAIRING. THREE 

 ILL. ALARMING SHORTNESS OF RATIONS. ASCENDING SCRUBBY WESTERN SLOPES 



OF MclLWRAITH RANGE. JACK'S CAMPS 2$ AND 26 NEAR KENNEDY'S TRACK. A 



MAN TOO LAME TO WALK. TENTS BURNED TO LIGHTEN LOAD. SCRUBBY 

 MOUNTAINS. HEAD OF PASCOE RIVER, RUNNING SOUTHWARD. JACKEY-JACKEY 

 SHOOTS A CASSOWARY. HORSES KILLED FOR FOOD. SCARCITY OF GRASS. BREAD- 

 LESS FOR LACK OF WATER. NORTHWARD THROUGH JANET RANGE. CAMP (llTH 



NOVEMBER) ON TIDAL WATER NEAR MOUTH OF PASCOE RIVER. CARRON AND 

 JACKEY-JACKEY WALK TO BEACH. LAST SHEEP KILLED. CAMP MOVED EAST TO 

 BARRETT HILL. NINE HORSES LEFT OUT OF TWENTY-SEVEN. PROVISIONS ALMOST 

 EXHAUSTED. DASH TO CAPE YORK PLANNED. CARRON AND SEVEN MEN TO BE 

 LEFT IN CAMP. KENNEDY, COSTIGAN, DUNN, LUFF AND JACKEY-JACKEY TO 

 MAKE THE DASH. KENNEDY HOPES TO BRING RELIEF BY WATER IN 14 DAYS. 

 DIVISION OF HORSES AND RATIONS. 



(SEE MAP G.) 



FROM the ijth to 2ist September, inclusive, the course 

 is given by Carron as north-west ; more probably it was 

 north-west to begin with, and then veered round to the 

 west until a gap was found in the " CONGLOMERATE 

 RANGE," which bounds the Palmer valley on the north likely 

 enough the same gap which was subsequently made use of by 

 " MACMILLAN'S ROAD," and then the north-western course was 

 resumed, to be changed to a northern as soon as the nature of the 

 ground permitted. " There was," says Carron, " occasionally 

 fair travelling over stiff soil intersected by many creeks, most of 



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