carry me a good way;” then Mr. Kennedy looked
this way, very bad (Jackey rolling his eyes).
I said to him, “Don’t look far away,”
as I thought he would be frightened; I asked him often,
“Are you well now?” and he said, “I
don’t care for the spear wound in my leg, Jackey,
but for the other two spear wounds in my side and
back,” and said, “I am bad inside, Jackey.”
I told him blackfellow always die when he got spear
in there (the back); he said, “I am out of wind,
Jackey;” I asked him, “Mr. Kennedy; are
you going to leave me?” and he said, “Yes,
my boy, I am going to leave you;” he said, “I
am very bad, Jackey; you take the books, Jackey, to
the captain, but not the big ones, the Governor will
give anything for them;” I then tied up the
papers; he then said, “Jackey, give me paper
and I will write;” I gave him paper and pencil,
and he tried to write, and he then fell back and died,
and I caught him as he fell back and held him, and
I then turned round myself and cried: I was crying
a good while until I got well; that was about an hour,
and then I buried him; I digged up the ground with
a tomahawk, and covered him over with logs, then grass,
and my shirt and trousers; that night I left him near
dark; I would go through the scrub, and the blacks
threw spears at me, a good many, and I went back again
into the scrub; then I went down the creek which runs
into Escape River, and I walked along the water in
the creek very easy, with my head only above water,
to avoid the blacks, and get out of their way; in
this way I went half a mile; then I got out of the
creek, and got clear of them, and walked on all night
nearly, and slept in the bush without a fire; I went
on next morning, and felt very bad, and I spelled
for two days; I lived upon nothing but salt water;
next day I went on and camped one mile away from where
I left, and ate one of the pandanus fruits; next morning
I went on two miles, and sat down there, and I wanted
to spell a little there, and go on; but when I tried
to get up, I could not, but fell down again very tired
and cramped, and I spelled here two days; then I went
on again one mile, and got nothing to eat but one
nonda; and I went on that day and camped, and on again
next morning, about half a mile, and sat down where
there was good water, and remained all day. On
the following morning, I went a good way, went round
a great swamp and mangroves, and got a good way by
sundown; the next morning I went and saw a very large
track of blackfellows; I went clear of the track and
of swamp or sandy ground; then I came to a very large
river, and a large lagoon; plenty of alligators in
the lagoon, about ten miles from Port Albany.
I now got into the ridges by sundown, and went up
a tree and saw Albany Island; then next morning at
four o’clock, I went on as hard as I could go
all the way down, over fine clear ground, fine ironbark
timber, and plenty of good grass; I went on round
the point (this was towards Cape York, north of Albany
Island) and went on and followed a creek down, and