CHAPTER XXXV 



KENNEDY'S EXPEDITION, 1848, continued 

 VOYAGE OF THE " FREAK " 



SEARCH FOR RELICS OF KENNEDY AND THE " PUDDING-PAN 



HILL" PARTY 



POSITION OF COSTIGAN, DUNN AND LUFF'S CAMP. "FREAK'S" BOAT COASTING SHELBURNE 

 BAY NORTHWARD. LANDING. CANOE FOUND, CONTAINING HOLSTER RECOGNISED 

 BY JACKEY- JACKET. BOAT REJOINS "FREAK" NEAR ORFORD NESS. SHIP "COQUETTE" 

 OVERTAKEN. BOAT PARTY LAND 12 MlLES UP ESCAPE RlVER. SCENES OF KENNEDY^ 

 DEATH AND BURIAL SEARCHED. CONVINCING RELICS FOUND. WHALE-BOAT PARTY 

 LED BY JACKEY-JACKEY TO PLACE WHERE HE HAD HIDDEN KENNEDY'S PAPERS. 

 CHARTS AND NOTEBOOKS FOUND, BUT APPARENTLY ALMOST DESTROYED. LARGER 

 NOTEBOOKS, WHICH PROBABLY CONTAINED KENNEDY'S DIARY, NOT FOUND. 



THE "FREAK" 



BEFORE relating the story of the rescue of the two survivors 

 of the Pascoe Camp, the last efforts made to discover 

 traces of COSTIGAN, DUNN and LUFF, and of KENNEDY 

 himself, have to be recorded. 



The brig " Freak," CAPTAIN T. BECKFORD SIMPSON, Chief 

 Officer, Macnate, was chartered by the Government of New South 

 Wales " to call (on her way to Port Essington) at Shelburne Bay 

 and Escape River, to ascertain if possible the fate of the three 

 men left at the former place, and recover the papers of Mr. Kennedy 

 secreted by Jackey-Jackey." JACKET- JACKET was on board, together 

 with two other natives of his own tribe. CAPTAIN SIMPSON'S 

 PRIVATE LOG of the voyage, which appeared in Carron's book, and 

 was reprinted in the Voyage oj the " Rattlesnake" gives the only 

 available account of what was done. 



In the afternoon of ^tb May, 1849, the " Freak " anchored near 

 Round Point, the eastern horn of SHELBURNE BAT. (SEE MAP B.) The 

 importance of the exact position of the anchorage was fully realised 

 by the Captain, who took careful bearings from three distinct 

 landmarks which were then, and are now, laid down on the chart. 



Conical Hill . . . SE.*E. 



Saddle Hill S.|E. 



Remarkable Sand Patch . . . SW.iW. 



Unfortunately these bearings, when plotted on the chart, 

 the inference being that the landmarks had only 

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