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STATEMENT OF JACKET JACKET, 



MADE BY HIM ON BOAED THE AEIEL, AND WBIT- 

 TEN DOWN BY DR. VALLACK. 



I STARTED with Mr. Kennedy from Weymouth 

 Bay for Cape Tork, on the 13th November, 1848, 

 accompanied by Costigan, Dunn, and Lufi^ leaving' 

 eig-ht men at the camp, at Wej^mouth Bay. We 

 went on till we came to a river which empties itself 

 into Weymouth Bay. A Httle further north we 

 crossed the river; next morning" a lot of natives 

 camped on the other side of the river. Mr. 

 Kennedy and the rest of us went on a very high 

 hill and came to a flat on the other side and camped 

 there ; I went on a good way next day ; a horse 

 fell down a creek ; the flour we took with us lasted 

 three days; we had much trouble in getting" the 

 horse out of the creek ; we went on, and came out, 

 and camped on the ridges ; we had no water. Next 

 morning went on and Luff was taken ill with a very- 

 bad knee ; we left him behind, and Dunn went back 

 again and brought him on ; Luff was riding a horse 

 named Fiddler; then we went on and camped at 

 a little creek ; the flour being out this day we 

 commenced eating horse-flesh, which Carron gave 

 us when we left Weymouth Bay ; as we went on 

 we came on a small river, and saw no blacks there ; 



