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TRACTED, WEAK from wounds and fatigue, and STARVING, and was 

 probably UNCONSCIOUS for a considerable part of the eventful forty 

 days ; and thus could not be expected to take note of the divisions of 

 time in such a manner as to satisfy either a Justice of the Peace or 

 an historian. 



As the " Statement, " for what it is worth, must form the text 

 from which any conclusions whatever regarding the last days of 

 Kennedy's career must be drawn, it is given below in its entirety ; 

 but I have added my conjectures as to dates in notes within the 

 text and appended explanatory footnotes. 



STATEMENT OF JACKEY-JACKEY 



MADE BY HIM ON BOARD THE "ARIEL," AND WRITTEN 

 DOWN BY DR. VALLACK 



(SEE MAP B) 



I STARTED WITH MR. KENNEDY from Weymouth Bay for Cape York, on 

 the l^th November, 1848, accompanied by COSTIGAN, DUNN, AND LUFF, leaving 

 eight men at the camp, at Weymouth Bay. We went on till we came to a 

 RIVER 1 which empties itself into Weymouth Bay. A little further north we crossed 

 the river [i^th November] ; next morning a lot of NATIVES camped on the other side 

 of the river. Mr. Kennedy and the rest of us went on a VERY HIGH HILL 2 and came to 

 a flat on the other side and camped there [i^th November] ; I went on a good way next 

 day \i$tk November] ; a HORSE FELL down a creek ; the FLOUR we took with us 

 LASTED THREE DAYS ; we had much trouble in getting the horse out of the creek ; 

 we went on, and came out, and camped \\6th November] on the ridges ; we had NO 

 WATER. Next morning went on and LUFF was taken ILL with a very bad knee ; we 

 left him behind, and Dunn went back again and brought him on \ijtb November] ; 

 Luff was riding a horse named Fiddler ; then we went on and camped at a little 

 creek 3 [i8th November] ; the flour being out this day we commenced EATING HORSE- 

 FLESH, which Carron gave us when we left Weymouth Bay ; as we went on we came 

 on a small river, 4 and saw no blacks there ; as we proceeded we gathered NONDAS, 

 and lived upon them and the meat ; we stopped at a little creek 5 and it came on 

 raining, and COSTIGAN SHOT HIMSELF 6 ; in putting his saddle under the tarpaulin a 

 string caught the trigger and the ball went in under the right arm and came out at 

 his back under the shoulder ; we went on this morning all of us, and stopped at 

 another creek in the evening \iyth November], and the next morning 7 we KILLED A 

 HORSE named Browney, smoked him that night \2Oth November], and went on next 

 day, taking as much of the horse as we could with us, and went on about a mile and 

 then turned back again to where we killed the horse, because Costigan was very bad 

 and in much pain ; we went back again because there was no water ; then Mr. 

 Kennedy and I had dinner there and went on in the afternoon \2ist November], 

 LEAVING DUNN, COSTIGAN AND LUFF at the creek. This was at Pudding-Pan Hill, 



Pascoe River. R. L. J. 

 A spur of the Carron Range. R. L. J. 

 Glennie Creek. 



MacMillan River, near my Camp 44 of 2ist February, 1880. R. L. J. 

 The creek falling into the left bank of the Macmillan opposite my 43rd Camp. 

 R. L. J. 



6 A reporter elicited from Jackey-Jackey that " it was on a Sunday morning Costigan 

 shot himself " (Sydney Morning Herald, 6th March, 1849). Jackey-Jackey was not 

 likely to be mistaken on this point, as Kennedy's custom was to differentiate Sunday 

 from week-days. The date would therefore be the igth, the first Sunday after the 

 departure from Weymouth Bay. 



7 " Next morning," i.e., the morning after the accident. R. L. J 



