Correspondence with the Colonial Secretary's Office

were only gins and blind old men in it; from them I learnt that Johnny with two or more other Blacks had shifted his camp one day previous over another range to the head of the Cabbage Tree Creek [added in right margin] not the same Sand= gate [Sandgate] Cabbage Tree Creek ----------- about 12 miles from Samford.

We immediately tracked them to their camp but unfortunately on approach= ing them, Johnny who was washing a sheet of Bark, caught sight of one of the men and dived into the creek immediately. I believe his companions were Billy Bow Bow & Jemmy D'Orsay; we were [in right margin] a bad Black not near enough to fire upon them. ~ .

I beg to mention that [M^c Norton's?] Black-Boy Jemmy ([Potingar?]), for whom a coroner's warrant was issued about five years ago, for killing his gin in Ipswich, captured Kipper Billy, at the risk