NARRATIVE OF MR. CARRON. 1.53 



July Srd. — Early this morning' we prepared to 

 start;, but LuiF and Douglas being seized with a fit 

 of ague, we were compelled to stop. Although our 

 horses had all the way had abundance of feed, they 

 began to grow very thin — several of them very 

 weak, and one getting very lame, from bad feet. 

 The sheep also had fallen away very much, which I 

 attributed to the wet journey they had had ; being 

 almost always wet, from crossing rivers and creeks. 



July 4:th. — Mr. Kennedy and three others roamed 

 this morning to some distance from the camp, when 

 they were followed by a tribe of natives, making- 

 threatening demonstrations, and armed with spears ; 

 one spear was actually thrown, when Mr. Kennedy, 

 fearing for the safety of his party, ordered his men 

 to fire upon them ; four of the natives fell, but Mr. 

 Kennedy could not ascertain whether more than 

 one was killed, as the other three were immediately 

 carried off into the scrub. 



July 5th. — Luff and Douglas now began to get 

 better, but being still unable to walk, we could not 

 break up our camp. 



July 6th.— We started early this morning, and 

 crossed two creeks with narrow belts of scrub on 

 each side, running north-east. I have little doubt 

 these creeks run into the river we crossed on the 8th 

 of June. The banks of the second creek were 

 nearly twenty feet high, so that we were obliged to 

 lower down the carts into its bed by means of ropes 

 and pulleys, fastened to the branches of the trees 



