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A NATURALIST OX THE "CHALLENGER." 



are interesting from their rude character, and sketches of them 

 are given in the accompanying woodcut. 



AUSTEALIAN NATIVE DRAWINGS. 



1 Opossums ; 2 a fish ; 3 uncertain ; 4 a white man — drawn with charcoal, in caves, Browera 

 Creek. 5 figure of kangaroo, five feet in height — cut in a slab of stone — same locality. 



The row of four figures (1) evidently is intended to represent 

 four-footed animals, probably opossums (Plialangista), the draw- 

 ing being of about the size of that animal. Two of the figures 

 are roughly shaded. There were several similar rows of the same 

 figures in one cave. 



Figure 2 is a tolerably good representation of one of the fish 

 of the Creek. It also is shaded. 



Figures 3 I do not understand. The larger may be intended 

 for a shark. Figure 4 is evidently intended for a white man. 

 North American Indians are said to have distinguished white 

 men in their drawings by putting a tall hat on them. Such a 

 form of headdress must be astonishing to a savage at first 

 acquaintance. 



Near one of the caves, on a flat slab of stone standing 

 naturally erect, is a figure of a Kangaroo cut out in the stone 



