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the ground with a tomahawk, and covered him over 

 with logs, then grass, and my shirt and trowsers ; 

 that night I left him near dark." 



About eight days after, Jackey Jackey, having 

 with wonderftil ingenuity succeeded in escaping 

 from his pursuers, contrived to reach Port Albany, 

 and was received on board the vessel, which 

 immediately proceeded to Shelburne Bay to en- 

 deavour to rescue the three men left there. The 

 attempt to find the place was unsuccessftil, and from 

 the evidence furnished by clothes said by Jackey to 

 belong to them, found in a canoe upon the beach, 

 little doubt seemed to exist as to their fate. They 

 then proceeded to WejTnouth Bay, where they 

 arrived just in time to save Mr. Carron, the botanical 

 collector, and another man, the remaining six 

 having perished. In the words of one of the 

 survivors, " the men did not seem to suffer pain, but 

 withered into perfect skeletons, and died from utter 

 exhaustion." 



Such was the fate of Kennedy's expedition, and 

 in conclusion, to use the words of the Sydney 

 Morning Herald, " it would appear that as far as 

 earnestness of purpose, unshrinking endurance of 

 pain and fatigue, and most disinterested self-sacrifice, 

 go, the gallant leader of the party exhibited a model 

 for his subordinates. But the great natural diffi- 

 culties they had to encounter at the outset of the 

 expedition so severely affected the resources of the 

 adventurers, that they sunk under an accumulation 



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