54 L. HARGRAVE. 



before a north-easter. They reach North Head and see 

 the port. They shorten sail, a boat is launched and goes 

 ahead to sound. The ship follows, past South Reef, and 

 Sow and Pigs (then a rock about as big as Pinch-gut) and 

 Shark Point, anchoring in Rose Bay, off "Carrara." The 

 empty water casks are filled at " Tivoli." A prospecting 

 party, armed, lands on Point Piper and extends its search 

 as far as Botany. They return goldless, bringing a great 

 animal of curious form, and cast it on the rock. They 

 signal for a boat. The clumsy shallop makes slow way 

 against a southerly, the crew urged on by scourge and 

 blow. The shape of the animal is scribed round, the 

 miners are told to work round the line with gads. Others 

 sitting idle are made to work at a figure of a Spaniard in 

 armour, and other things. Can you see it thus ? 



Mr. Charles Hedley, f.l.s., has since shown me Memoirs 

 Geological Survey, N.S. Wales, Ethnological Series, No. 1, 

 1899, by W. D. Campbell. This contains many more figures, 

 two of which show the pointed knee covering, and also 

 numbers of fishes. The point tool is noticed in the work. 

 There are too many carvings to be all attributable solely 

 to Peruvian miners, but we can well understand the bleed- 

 ing loading slave dropping his gads in the grass at every 

 chance, and the sharp-eyed aborigine finding every one of 

 them and mimicking their use. 



