VOYAGE OF THE "ARIEL" 235 



" Ariel " kept on its course to the south and anchored at nightfall 

 " in the centre of HANNIBAL BAY, RISK POINT ahead." 



There is no Hannibal Bay in the chart from which I made my 

 travelling " blank" in 1869, nor in that of 1894, but the double 

 bay extending north from the latitude of the Hannibal Islands to 

 False Orford Ness was so named in the older charts which, pre- 

 sumably, were carried by Kennedy and Captain Dobson in 1848. 

 Risk Point, although not named in the chart which I used 

 in 1879, nor in later issues, must have appeared in the charts 

 carried by Kennedy and Captain Dobson in 1848, and is located 

 from bearings taken by Captain Simpson as 11 35' 30" S. The 

 probability is that the anchorage of 2$th December was off the mouth 

 of CAMISADE CREEK, where, thirty-one years later, the blacks 

 attacked my own party. 



While approaching the anchorage in the afternoon of 25th 

 December, Dr. Vallack saw about forty NATIVES on the shore. 



On 26th December, the " Ariel " struck a reef within a few 

 minutes of weighing anchor, but got off without damage. She 

 ANCHORED in the afternoon in SHELBURNE BAY in sight of a HILL 

 which Jackey-Jackey identified by surrounding landmarks as the 

 locality WHERE COSTIGAN, DUNN AND LUFF HAD BEEN LEFT on 2oth 

 November (Costigan having been mortally wounded by an 

 accidental gunshot) and which Kennedy erroneously supposed 

 to be the " Pudding-Pan Hill " of the chart. Captain Dobson 

 saw two NATIVES on the shore WEARING what he took to be either 



CLOAKS OR BLUE SHIRTS. 



It is unfortunate, considering how important it was to locate 

 the last resting-place of Costigan, Dunn and Luff, that Captain 

 Dobson did not record the latitude of his landing, which he might 

 easily have done from the chart in the absence of an observation. 



At daybreak of zjth December a party consisting of CAPTAIN 

 DOBSON, DR. VALLACK, BARRETT, a sailor named TOM and JACKEY- 

 JACKEY landed on the coast, the last named acting as guide. From 

 a careful consideration of every expression made use of by Dr. 

 Vallack, the probability is that the boat, which was left in charge 

 of two of the " hands," touched first at DOUBLE POINT. A CANOE 

 was found here, containing part of a cloak which Jackey-Jackey 

 said belonged to the men left behind on the 2Oth November. The 

 party then " trudged through dense scrub inland for about an 

 hour." Considering the density of the scrub, that Barrett had a 

 spear wound, and that Jackey-Jackey had by no means recovered 

 his " condition," probably not more than 2 miles were covered. 

 The direction of the march is not stated, although " inland " may 

 be taken to be south-west, or at right angles to the coast-line. 

 Jackey-Jackey then declared that they were not going far enough 

 south and might as well get away in that direction from a new 

 point of departure on the coast which would be easier to reach by 



