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the mountain mass which I named the JANET RANGE in 1880. 

 Individual points now appear on the chart, including SIMPSON 

 HILL at the mouth of the Pascoe, BARRETT HILL (on the north end 

 of which was Carron's depot), the ROUND BACK HILLS, near Cape 

 Weymouth, MOUNT TOZER (the highest point, 1,953 feet), the 

 " SOUTH " and " NORTH " PAPS, MOUNT DOBSON, MOUNT NELSON 

 and the GODDARD HiLLS. 1 The names commemorate Kennedy's 

 expedition, the voyage of the relief ship " Ariel " (1848), the voyage 

 of the " Rattlesnake " and the administration of two Premiers of 

 Queensland, Sir Horace Tozer and Sir Hugh Nelson. 



Kennedy and Carron took stock of the PROVISIONS remaining 

 on 1 3th November, which consisted of 46 Ib. of flour, 75 Ib. of dried 

 horseflesh and I Ib. of tea. The consumption of flour since stock 

 was taken on 23rd October had been at the rate of 07 Ib. per man 

 per day. 



The twenty-seven HORSES with which the expedition set out 

 from Rockingham Bay had now been reduced to NINE. There 

 were, apparently, twelve on 6th November, so that three are 

 unaccounted for. They either died in the passage of the Janet 

 Range, or Carron omitted to mention some deaths or losses when 

 they took place. 



KENNEDY TOOK with him SEVEN of the HORSES, the 75 Ib. of 

 HORSEFLESH, 1 8 Ib. of FLOUR and half a pound of TEA. CARRON 

 and his party were left with 28 Ib. of FLOUR, half a pound of TEA 

 and two HORSES, which were to be killed for food as occasion required. 

 He was instructed to make his provisions last for six weeks. Besides 

 Carron, the party left at the depot consisted of Wall, Niblet, 

 Taylor, Carpenter, Goddard, Mitchell and Douglas. Those 

 eight men were to wait in camp for the relief which Kennedy hoped 

 to bring them by water in fourteen days at the earliest. Kennedy 

 expected to meet H.M.S. " Bramble " at Port Albany and to have 

 a party sent out at once to Weymouth Bay by sea. 



Mr. Archibald Meston in his Re-port on the Aboriginals of 

 Queensland* states that in 1896 he mustered the blacks of the 

 district surrounding Moreton Telegraph Station, and adds : 

 " One old fellow remembered Kennedy's expedition of 1848 and 

 all the fatal circumstances of the last sad days. He said Kennedy 

 had been shooting blacks all along his track." 



If that old black really saw the Kennedy expedition forty- eight 

 years before he told the story, there can be no doubt that he 

 exaggerated grossly. Carron records only two instances (i6th 

 September and loth October, 1848) when Kennedy's party used 

 firearms in self-defence. If there was any foundation for the 



1 Names given by the officers of the surveying ships " Paluma " and "Dart," 

 1890-8. See the chapters on Minutiae of Marine Surveys. 



2 Report on the Aboriginals of Queensland, by Archibald Meston, Special Commission 

 under Instructions from the Queensland Government, Brisbane. By Authority, 1896. 



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