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enormous size. GODDARD WALKED TO THE BOAT, but I COULD NOT DO so without the 

 assistance of Captain Dobson and Dr. Vallack, and I had to be carried altogether 

 a part of the distance. The others, Jackey and Barrett, kept a look out for the blacks. 



" We were UNABLE TO BRING MANY THINGS from the camp. The principal were the 

 firearms and one parcel of my seeds, which I managed to keep dry, containing eighty- 

 seven species. All my specimens were left behind, which I regretted, for, though much 

 injured, the collection contained specimens of very beautiful trees, shrubs, and 

 orchideae. I could also only secure an ABSTRACT OF MY JOURNAL, except that portion 

 of it from I3th November to 3Oth December, which I have in full. MY ORIGINAL 

 JOURNAL, with a botanical work which had been kindly lent me by a friend in 

 Sydney for the expedition, WAS LEFT BEHIND. We got safely on board the * Ariel? 

 and, after a very long passage, arrived in SYDNEY. 



" I am confident that no man could have done more for the safety of the party 

 than was done by MR. KENNEDY, nor could any man have exerted himself more than 

 he in the distressing circumstances of our perilous journey. He walked by far the 

 greater part of the distance, giving his one horse for the use of the weak men and the 

 general use of the expedition. I never rode but two hours all through the journey, 

 and that was on two successive days when we were in the vicinity of Cape Sidmouth 

 and I was suffering from bad feet. 



" The unfortunate DEATH OF OUR brave and generous LEADER, deeply and exten- 

 sively as I know it to have been lamented, can have no more sincere mourner than 

 myself. 



" The tale of his sufferings and those of his party has already been read and 

 sympathised over by hundreds, and it would ill become me to add anything to the 

 artless narrative of the faithful and true-hearted JACKEY, who having tended his last 

 moments and closed his eyes, was the first, and perhaps the most disinterested, bewailer 

 of his unhappy fate." 



It may be remarked that Carron's narrative gives very few 

 geological notes. Probably if Kennedy's diary had been preserved 

 it would have added much to our geological knowledge. CAPTAIN 

 DOBSON concludes his brief " Statement " by saying : 



" We then pursued our way to Weymouth Bay and RESCUED MR. CARRON AND 

 GODDARD. We brought with us what INSTRUMENTS we could from the camp they 

 were not many, as Mr. Carron was hardly in a state to tell me what was there. I 

 should have returned to the camp at Weymouth Bay to save everything, but for the 

 HOSTILITY OF THE NATIVES, who surrounded us in great numbers, and, as soon as we 

 had left the camp, rifled it." 



Some further particulars of the closing scene of the tragedy are 

 given by DR. VALLACK. 



On 29^ December , 1848, the " Ariel " anchored in Weymouth 

 Bay. The afternoon was wet and squally, and the day was too far 

 spent for a landing party to reach Carron's Camp and return to 

 the schooner. An anxious look out for a flagstaff or signals, of which 

 nothing was seen, led to a gloomy foreboding that all had been lost. 



At daylight, next morning, the 30^, the " Ariel " shifted to a 

 distance of about half a mile from the land. No sooner had she 

 dropped anchor than FIVE CANOES were seen, paddling towards 

 them from among the mangroves, five to ten natives in each. From 

 the foremost canoe came shouts of " ferraman " and " white man " 



