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got deep water in it, and a large, strong, running stream, big 

 timber, and fertile, well-grassed banks." It now figures on the 

 4-mile map as STATION CREEK. There is, or was, a station (Walwa) 

 further down the creek, at Kennedy's Camp of 3Oth September, 

 1848, but the restitution of Mulligan's name, the Warner, is to 

 be recommended. There must be some hundreds of " Station 

 Creeks " in Queensland. 



According to my reading of Carron's narrative, KENNEDY 

 travelled northward, a few miles east of the HANN RIVER, and then 

 dropped down to, and followed, the WARNER till he was satisfied 

 that he was on waters discharging into Princess Charlotte Bay. 



Fifteen miles beyond the Warner, Mulligan camped on " a 

 large creek," with " conglomerate-like banks and a deep small 

 stream," which appears in the Queensland 4-mile map as the 

 "NORTH KENNEDY RIVER." (CAMP 81. i$th September.) As the 

 water- course in question is west, not north, of the Kennedy River, 

 the name is misleading, and should be altered. I propose that the 

 name Therrimburi Creek, applied to the head of the water-course, 

 be extended to the whole of it. There are already on the map, 

 within 1 8 miles from west to east, a " North Kennedy River," 

 a " Kennedy River," a " Little Kennedy River " and a " Kennedy 

 Creek." Respect for the memory of the unfortunate Kennedy 

 does not justify the confusion of the map. 



Nine miles further on his course, Mulligan reached the 

 KENNEDY RIVER (CAMP 82, i6th September), which, he says, has 

 " deep and scrubby banks, with big timber on both sides ; the 

 river is going 50 E. of N. I have very little doubt of this being 

 the KENNEDY RIVER, as named by Kennedy, the explorer, who 

 ran it up to Princess Charlotte Bay ; it is not so large as the River 

 Warner." He was wrong in this. Kennedy did not himself 

 name the river ; after his death it appeared on maps first as 

 " Kennedy's River," and later on as the " Kennedy River." There 

 is every reason to believe that Kennedy only saw some of its insignifi- 

 cant heads and that his northward track was further west. 



Sixteen miles further, threading his way among swamps and 

 lagoons covered with wild-fowl, the water-course now shown on 

 the map as " Kennedy Creek " having apparently not been 

 recognisable as a distinct entity, he crossed the LAURA RIVER 

 (CAMP 84, iSth September) 20 miles north of the present railway 

 terminus. From this point, a north-east course of 5 miles took 

 him across the chord of the bow formed by the junction of the 

 LAURA with the NORMANBY, and he then followed the Palmerville- 

 Cooktown road for 12 miles, and fixed his CAMP 85 (iqth September) 

 in the vicinity of HANN'S CAMP 41, near the Battle Camp Range. 

 COOKTOWN was reached on 23^ September, 1875, anc ^ on the 

 following day Mulligan reported the safe arrival of the party to 

 the Minister for Works and Mines. 



