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resembling a dog's, with a very blunt nose ; the fore 

 arms were very short ; the hind feet cushioned like 

 those inhabiting rocky ground. The does appeared 

 to be much lighter ; but all were very wary and 

 scarce. From the number of red sand-hills, too, scat- 

 tered over the island, they were difficult to be seen at 

 a distance. From our description of this specimen 

 it has been named Osphranter Isabellinus. With 

 the wallaby we were more fortunate, Mr. Bynoe and 

 myself succeeding in knocking over four, weighing 

 from five to eight pounds ; they also had blunt 

 noses, and were of a light brown colour, quite 

 different from those on the Abrolhos. 



Two iguanas, measuring seven feet in length, and 

 nearly black, striped slightly with white, were also 

 killed here. 



We did not find any surface water ; every thing 

 wore a dry parched appearance. No traces of natives 

 were discovered, except some charred pieces of wood. 

 Indeed I may remark that we saw signs of fire on 

 every part of the continent we visited. From the 

 south extremity of the island a long reef trended in 

 the direction of the main land, where Captain King 

 traced it extending off some distance, thus connect- 

 ing with the shore the whole of these islands, which 

 seem to lie in a line with each other, like the various 

 parts of a submerged piece of land. The small isles, 

 especially between the Montebello Group and Bar- 

 row's Island, have all the same direction ; so that 

 it seems fair to conclude that they were once a part 



