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the afternoon we g"ot on clear g-round, and the horse 

 fell down, me and all ; the horse lay upon my right 

 hip. Here Mr, Kennedy g"ot off his horse and 

 moved my horse from my thigh j we stopped there 

 that night, and could not get the horse up j we 

 looked to him in the morning and he was dead ; we 

 left him there ; we had some horse meat left to eat, 

 and went on that day and crossed a little river and 

 camped. The next day we went a good way ; Mr. 

 Kennedy told me to go up a tree to see a sandy 

 hill somewhere ; I went up a tree, and saw a sandy 

 hill a little way down from Port Albany. That 

 day we camped near a swamp ; it was a very rainy 

 day. The next morning we went on, and Mr. 

 Kennedy told me we should get round to Port 

 Albany in a day; we travelled on all day till 

 twelve o'clock (noon), and then we saw Port 

 Albany ; then he said, " There is Port Albany, 

 Jackey — a ship is there — you see that island there," 

 pointing to Albany Island ; this was when we were 

 at the mouth of Escape River ; we stopped there a 

 little while ; all the meat was gone ; I tried to get 

 some fish but could not ; we went on in the after- 

 noon half a mile along the river side, and met a 

 good lot of blacks, and we camped ; the blacks all 

 cried out "powad powad," and rubbed their bellies; 

 and we thought they were friendly, and Mr. 

 Kennedy gave them fish-hooks all round; every 

 one asked me if I had any thing to give away, and 

 I said, no ; and Mr. Kennedy said, give them your 



