234 NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA 



23rd December, " first standing, then walking very lame, then 

 sitting down on a rock." When taken on board he became faint 

 and had to be revived with wine. He carried the mark of a spear 

 wound on his forehead. (SEE MAP A.) 



The " Ariel" after losing the remainder of the day in an 

 attempt to increase the supply of beef, got away on 2\th 

 December. DR. VALLACK spent that day in eliciting the in- 

 formation already given in JACKET- JACKET'S " STATEMENT." The 

 deponent could not be kept too long under the strain of examina- 

 tion and Dr. Vallack humoured him " by changing the subject now 

 and then by speaking of his comrades at Jerry's Plains." The 

 anchorage for the night was 5 miles south of SHADWELL POINT, 

 opposite the mouth of HENDERSON CREEK. 



A dead calm the following morning (25^ December) made it 

 useless to weigh anchor till about 10 o'clock, when a light breeze 

 sprang up. Shortly afterwards, a CANOE was met with probably 

 about 2 miles north of the Gilmore Bank and the native crew 

 were interrogated. One native was allowed to come on board, 

 and Jackey-Jackey, who had been stationed in the foretop, recog- 

 nised the NATIVES as those WHO HAD SPEARED KENNEDY, the one who 

 had come on board being the one to whom Jackey-Jackey had given 

 his knife at Kennedy's request. The native was therefore forcibly 

 detained, and it was observed that his arm was decorated with 

 part of a bridle and a piece of a tendon of a horse round his arm. 

 The other blacks in the meantime had jumped into the sea and the 

 long-boat was put out to examine the deserted canoe for other 

 relics. Observing the boat, the natives re-entered the canoe and 

 paddled for the shore. The boat, however, overtook the canoe, 

 when all the blacks again sprang overboard, with the exception of 

 one, who SPEARED BARRETT in the arm, and was himself shot. The 

 boat returned to the ship towing the canoe, in which lay the dying 

 native. A portion of a spear, an inch in length, was extracted 

 by Dr. Vallack from Barrett's arm on I3th February. 



There were found in the canoe " the leg part of a pair of 

 trousers, three spears, a piece of iron of a saddle, hooks and lines, 

 etc.," and a piece of moleskin was taken off the captive native's leg 

 and identified by Jackey-Jackey as part of his own trousers which he 

 had tied round KENNEDY'S head before burying the body. Jackey 

 concluded, and, no doubt, correctly, that the BODY had been 

 EXHUMED. (SEE MAP B.) 



With a favouring and refreshing breeze the ship resumed her 

 course, and shortly afterwards Jackey-Jackey pointed out from the 

 foretop, a HILL which he said was LIKE PUDDING-PAN HILL. THIS 

 WAS the real " PUDDING-PAN HILL " of the chart, but the absence 

 of certain surroundings which Jackey-Jackey had noted soon con- 

 vinced him that it was NOT THE HILL TO WHICH KENNEDY HAD 

 erroneously GIVEN THAT NAME. On his vehement insistence, the 



