270 investigator's well. 



numbers, forming a complete curtain over the island. 

 They rose from the ground in such prodigious 

 flights at each footstep that we were absolutely pre- 

 vented from shooting any of the quails with which 

 the island abounds. This annoyance, however, was 

 only experienced for the first day or two, as the 

 locusts winged their flight to Bentinck Island, leav- 

 ing the trees only laden with them ; out of these 

 they started, when disturbed, with a rushing noise 

 like surf on a pebbly beach. 



The Investigator's old well was discovered half a 

 mile eastward of the point, to which I gave the 

 name of Point Inscription, from a very interesting 

 discovery we made of the name of Flinders' ship 

 cut on a tree near the well, and still perfectly 

 legible, although nearly forty years old, as the 

 reader will perceive from the wood-cut annexed. 



Infcrestinp: tree. 



