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only in one small spot near the east end of the island. Ascending 

 a low hill on the north shore, I obtained a good view of the 

 adjacent West Wallaby Island, which was connected to the eastern 

 island by an almost continuous series of reefs and coral-flats, so 

 that it appeared quite practicable to cross from one island to the 

 other on foot at low water, the distance being about two miles. 

 Close to this hill was one of the two wells or watering-places 

 mentioned by Capt. Stokes in his account of the island ; this was 

 a circular hole in the limestone rock, about a yard in diameter 

 and ten feet deep, with a few inches of slightly brackish but clear 

 and fairly good water at the bottom. No more Wallabies were 

 shot to-day, as the men had got tired of them ; but a fair number 

 of bronze-wing Pigeons and several specimens of the peculiar 

 Quail were bagged by our sportsmen. 



We were able at last to get away from our anchorage at day- 

 break on the 20th, and, abandoning finally our proposed visit to 

 Champion Bay, as our stock of coal on board was very low, we 

 shaped our course direct for Fremantle, where we arrived on the 

 morning of Nov. 22nd. 



