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from our hurried voyage, and we turned and retraced our course 

 out of the harbor, not sorry to leave this decaying port. The Albany 

 Pass was the most attractive scenery we had met since leaving 

 Soerabaja. High walls on either side; on the left a pretty cove 

 with coco palms and a white beach ; later on the right a quadran- 



141. QUEENSLAND ANT HILL 28 FEET HIGH. 



gular rock formation like the ruins of a mediaeval watch tower. 

 The walls of the pass were nearly parallel and far enough apart to 

 make a broad and imposing avenue. Soon after we had left these 

 behind we turned southward and the moon was on the starboard 

 side ; I watched her until the setting and at ten turned in. 



The Queensland coast was higher than I expected , but it looked 

 desolate and forbidding. Here and there we saw ant hills, some 

 evidently of considerable height (Fig. 141 ). On the reef side occa- 



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