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Carpentaria, representing porpoises, turtles, kangaroos, and a human 

 hand (Fig. 5). At another place in the cave was a figure of a kangaroo 

 followed by thirty-two hunters. 



The atlas of the " Voyage of Perron " contains copies of a number 

 of designs by natives of Port Jackson, but none of them are more curi- 

 ous than the one which we reproduce from Mr. Brough Smyth (Fig. 6). 



Above are a hunter chasing a swan on the water, two emus with their 

 nest and eggs, a native about to strike a large lizard, and two European 

 houses ; below, are nine natives dressed in European clothes, holding 

 native arms in their hands, and executing a war-dance ; while in the 

 right-hand corner are an emu, and an Englishman, who, with a whip 

 sticking out from his pocket and wearing hunting-boots, gives his 

 arm to a woman whose ample crinoline fairly indicates the time when 

 the figures were drawn. 



These first essays of a barbarous race possess a high interest, and 

 cause us to regret that the circumstances controlling the condition 

 of the people have not permitted them to give their tastes a higher 

 development. Translated from La Nature. 







UNEXPLORED PAETS OF THE OLD WOELD. 



By M. V^NUKOFF. 



I PROPOSE to point out very briefly certain regions of Europe and 

 Asia which have not yet been explored. Some persons may be 

 surprised to hear Europe spoken of in this sense, but there are consid- 

 erable parts of that continent of which much of interest is yet to be 

 learned, and concerning which our maps are inexact and our geography 



