CHAPTER XXXVI 



KENNEDY'S EXPEDITION, 1848, continued 

 CARRON'S PARTY AT THE PASCOE RIVER 



DEPARTURE OF KENNEDY'S FORLORN HOPE, I3TH NOVEMBER, 1848. THE EIGHT 

 MEN LEFT BEHIND. HARROWING SUFFERINGS FROM STARVATION AND SlCKNESS 

 AND THE HOSTILITY OF THE NATIVES. DYING ONE AFTER ANOTHER. THE 

 " BRAMBLE " SEEN GOING SOUTH. FRANTIC ATTEMPTS TO ATTRACT HER ATTENTION. 

 SHE SAILS ON (2ND DECEMBER). LAST HOPE GONE WITH HER. DESPAIR. TREACHERY 

 AND MOCKERY OF NATIVES. THREATENED ATTACK IN OVERWHELMING NUMBERS. 

 ALL THE PARTY DEAD BUT Two. RESCUE BY CAPTAIN DOBSON AND THE 

 " ARIEL'S " CREW, LED BY JACKEY-]ACKEY (3OTH DECEMBER), AT THE MOMENT 

 WHEN AN ATTACK BY THE NATIVES WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. CARRON AND GODDARD, 

 THE ONLY SURVIVORS, WASTED TO SKELETONS, HELPED TO THE " ARIEL." CARRON'S 

 JOURNAL SINCE KENNEDY'S DEPARTURE AND AN ABSTRACT OF CARRON'S JOURNAL 



FROM ROCKINGHAM BAY TO THE PASCOE THE ONLY RECORDS SAVED. " ARIEL'S" 



ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY, 5 MARCH, 1849. CARRON'S LAST Two CAMPS VISITED BY 

 " FREAK'S" OFFICERS, 3RD MAY, 1849. REMAINS OF WALL AND NIBLET FOUND, 

 AND BURIED IN ALBANY ISLAND. CHARACTER OF KENNEDY. PlOUS, AMIABLE, 

 CAPABLE AND PERSISTENT. JACKEY-JACKEY'S HEROISM, DEVOTION TO KENNEDY 

 AND MASTERY IN BUSHCRAFT. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION IN SYDNEY. CARRON 

 WRITES A NARRATIVE EXPANDED FROM THE ABSTRACT OF HIS DIARY. MEMORIAL 

 TABLET IN ST. JAMES' CHURCH, SYDNEY. CARRON'S DEATH IN 1876. 



(SEE MAP B.) 



IT now becomes necessary to resume the consideration of 

 CARRON'S NARRATIVE, for his account of the party left under 

 his charge on the I3th November, 1848, when Kennedy set 

 out on his ill-fated journey to Cape York to obtain relief. 

 The party camped near the mouth of the Pascoe consisted of 

 eight individuals, viz., CARRON, WALL, NIBLET, TAYLOR, CARPENTER, 

 GODDARD, MITCHELL and DOUGLAS. They had been told by 

 Kennedy that in the most favourable circumstances they might 

 expect relief in fourteen days, but were instructed to make their 

 provisions last for six weeks. These PROVISIONS consisted of 

 28 Ib. of flour, - Ib. of tea, and two horses, which were to be killed 

 for food as required. 



The men left behind were, as may well be believed, weak and 

 weary, and settled down in their last camp with " a sort of sluggish 

 indifference " and without the stimulus of hope. 



One horse was killed on the I4th and the other on the 27th 

 November, and the last of the FLOUR was FINISHED on the 4th 



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