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native dog was seen by Lieut. Simpson, in chace 

 of a small kangaroo, which, on being- close pressed, 

 plunged into the water and swam out to sea, when 

 it was picked up by the boat, leaving its pursuer 

 standing on a rock gazing wistfully at its intended 

 prey, until a musket ball, which went very near its 

 mark, sent it off at a trot. The kangaroo lived on 

 board for a few days, and proved to constitute quite 

 a new kind, closely allied to Salmaturus Thetidis. 



We anchored in the evening off the northern 

 extreme of Frankland Isle, No. IV. about three- 

 quarters of a mile off shore. At night a party was 

 sent on shore to look for turtle, but, after remaining 

 there for three hom-s, having walked several times 

 round the island, they returned without having seen 

 the slightest trace of these animals. 



The Frankland Group consists of four islands, 

 two of which are very small, and each of the other 

 two (I and IV.) about a mile in length. To these 

 may or may not be added another high and much 

 larger detached island situated about five miles to 

 the N.W., about midway between the remainder of 

 the group and the main land. No. IV. is formed 

 of two wooded rocky eminences at its extremes, 

 connected by level ground, consisting of dead coral 

 and sand, thickly covered with trees at one part, 

 and scattered bushes at another. The low woody 

 portion of this island is strewed with flat blocks of 

 the same kind of recent coral conglomerate that 

 occurs in situ on the beach, also with quantities of 



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