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been sketched from a surveying vessel, and were therefore valueless 

 for Captain Simpson's purpose. Had he contented himself with 

 giving the bearing of Round Point and marking the approximate 

 latitude and longitude, as taken from the chart, the position of the 

 anchorage and of what Jackey-Jackey pointed out as KENNEDY'S 

 SUPPOSED " PUDDING-PAN HILL " would have been tolerably 

 certain. From the anchorage the bearing of that hill is given as 

 W.^-N. Whether we assume the anchorage to have been " in 

 6 fathoms water " (as stated) on the bearings given from Conical 

 Hill, or on those given from Saddle Hill, W.fN. would place the 

 supposed Pudding-Pan Hill NORTH of where the " Ariel's " boat 

 party first landed on 2yth December, 1848 ; and where that party 

 tried, guided by Jackey-Jackey, to get away SOUTH. The presump- 

 tion is that, seen from a point of view new to him, Jackey-Jackey 

 pointed out the WRONG HILL to Captain Simpson. For a mistake 

 of this kind, Jackey-Jackey might very well be excused, as my own 

 travels showed the neighbourhood to be full of little detached 

 sandstone tablelands, any one of which might be fancifully likened 

 to an inverted pudding-pan. The balance of probability is in 

 favour of COSTIGAN, DUNN AND LUFF'S LAST CAMP and KENNEDY'S 

 SUPPOSED " PUDDING-PAN HILL " being in the positions I have 

 assigned to them. 



From daylight to 8 p.m. on the following day ($tb May), the 

 whale-boat of the " Freak" manned by the Second Officer, four 

 seamen, Jackey-Jackey and his two aboriginal companions, skirted 

 the coast of SHELBURNE BAY and the Pacific from ROUND POINT to 

 a point nearly opposite HELBY HILL, landing at three places, as 

 detailed in the Officer's short report : 



" I kept close along the beach all day, LANDED three times ; first near the Creek 

 where the 'ArieFs ' boat [first] landed. Saw no indications there of Europeans. 

 I landed again some distance further on, where I saw a NATIVE CAMP and a CANOE. 

 In the latter I found a leathern pistol-holster, marked 34, which Jackey recognised 

 as belonging to the party. Three NATIVES were seen by Jackey, who, on perceiving 

 the boat, ran into the bush. At the third place I landed I saw no indication of men. 

 I was close to the beach all along, and occasionally fired a musket." 



The holster found in the canoe could only have been one belong- 

 ing to the unfortunate COSTIGAN, DUNN AND LUFF PARTY, but 

 whether they died a natural death or were killed by the natives can 

 never be known. 



The " Freak " was anchored about a mile from the shore, at a 

 place from which the HANNIBAL ISLANDS bore SE. by E.-i-E., when 

 she took the boat's crew on board at 8 p.m. RISK POINT lay S.iE. 

 Risk Point is thus shown to be the not very prominent cape north 

 of Captain Billy's Creek, where my party came down to the beach 

 on 9th March, 1880, near Camp 56. As related elsewhere, we 

 travelled that day northward along the beach to Camp 57, where 

 the natives gave us a camisade. 



