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me, Kent’s report. 
in the former journey, that three firelocks had been consi- 
dered sufficient for our defence. On the present occasion, 
however, I thought it adviseable to provide arms for each 
individual. 
Mr. Hume declined accompanying me, as the harvest 
was at hand. Mr. George M'Leay therefore supplied his 
place, rather as a companion than as an assistant; and of 
those who accompanied me down the banks of the Mac- 
quarie, I again selected Harris (my body servant), Hopkin- 
son, and Fraser. 
The concluding chapter of this volume, relative to the pro- 
montory of St.Vincent, or Cape Jarvis, has been furnished me 
by the kindness of Mr. Kent, who accompanied the lament- 
ed officer to whom the further exploration of that part of 
coast unhappily proved fatal. There is a melancholy 
coincidence between Captain Barker’s death and that of 
Captain Cook, which cannot fail to interest the public, as 
the information that has been furnished will call for their 
serious consideration. I shall leave for their proper place, 
the remarks I have to offer upon it, since my motive in 
these prefatory observations has been, to carry the reader for- 
ward to that point at which he will have to view the pro- 
ceedings of the expedition alone, in order the more satis- 
factorily to arrive at their results. And, although he must 
expect a considerable portion of dry reading in the follow- 
ing pages, I have endeavoured to make the narrative of 
events, some of which are remarkably striking, as interest- 
ing as possible. 
