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as we proceeded we g-athered nondas^ and lived 

 upon them and the meat ; we stopped at a little 

 creek and it came on raining-^ and Costigan shot 

 himself; in putting his saddle under the tarpaulin, 

 a string caught^ the trigger and the ball went in 

 under the right arm and came out at his back under 

 the shoulder; we went on this morning all of us, 

 and stopped at another creek in the evening-, and 

 the next morning we killed a horse named Browney, 

 smoked him that night and went on next day, 

 taking- as much of the horse as we could with us, 

 and went on about a mile and then turned back 

 again to where we killed the horse, because Costigan 

 was very bad and in much pain; we went back 

 again because there was no water ; then Mr. 

 Kennedy and I had dinner there, and went on in 

 the afternoon leaving Dunn, Costigan, and Luff at 

 the creek. This was at Pudding-pan Hill, near 

 Shelburne Bay. Mr. Kennedy called it Pudding- 

 pan Hill. We left some horse meat with the three 

 men at Pudding-pan Hill, and carried some with us 

 on a pack horse. Mr. Kennedy wanted to make 

 great haste when he left this place, in order to g-et 

 the doctor to go down to the men that were iU. 

 This was about three weeks after leaving Weymouth 

 Bay. One horse was left with the three men at 

 Pudding-'pan Hill, and we (Kennedy and myself) 

 took M'ith us three horses. The three men were to 

 remain there until Mr. Kennedy and myself had 

 gone to and retm-ned from Cape York for them. 



