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followed us all the day ; all along- it was raining-^ 

 and I now told him to leave the horses and come 

 on without them, that the horses made too much 

 track, Mr. Kennedy was too weak, and would not 

 leave the horses. We went on this day till towards 

 evening-, raining- hard, and the hlacks followed us 

 all the day, some behind, some planted before ; in 

 fact, blacks all around following us. Now we 

 went on into a little bit of a scrub, and I told Mr. 

 Kennedy to look behind always ; sometimes he 

 would do so, and sometimes he would not look 

 behind to look out for the blacks. Then a good 

 many black fellows came behind in the scrub, and 

 threw plenty of spears, and hit Mr. Kennedy in the 

 back first. Mr. Kennedy said to me, " Oh ! Jackey, 

 Jackey ! shoot 'em, shoot 'em." Then I pulled out 

 my gun and fired, and hit one fellow all over the face 

 with buck shot ; he tumbled down, and got up again 

 and again and wheeled right round, and two black- 

 fellows picked him up and carried him away. They 

 went away then a little way, and came back again, 

 throwing spears all around, more than they did 

 before ; very large spears. I pulled out the spear 

 at once from Mr. Kennedy's back, and cut out the 

 jag with Mr. Kennedy's knife ; then Mr. Kennedy 

 got his gun and snapped, but the gun would not go 

 off. The blacks sneaked all along by the trees, and 

 speared Mr. Kennedy again in the rig-ht leg, above 

 the knee a little, and I got speared over the eye, 

 and the blacks were now throwing their spears all 



