I would go through the scrub and the blacks threw spears at me; a great many; and I went back 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 the 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 all night nearly, and slept in the bush without a fire." At the southern entrance of Albany Pass, one of the most picturesque spots of the east coast of Australia, the schooner Ariel lay at anchor, awaiting, day after day, some signal to indicate the arrival of the expected Kennedy.

One day the look-out man announced that there was an aboriginal on the mainland making urgent signals to the schooner.