424 L. HARGRAVE. 



would have seen the wreck, Torres' ships laid high enough 

 to reach Possession Island. 



Hibernia Passage seems a likely place, if there are any 

 sand banks, sand would gather round the wreck and all 

 timber would disappear or be covered with sand. The 

 copper ingots were ancient copper, being embedded in coral. 

 They were not Queensland copper or they would have been 

 salved a few months after being jettisoned, and not likely 

 to be thrown overboard as they would form stiffening for a 

 wool ship and been hard to get at. No modern ship with 

 a chart on board could get so far north of Prince of Wales 

 channel when passing Torres Straits. The copper being in 

 ingots shows the tools were not brought ready made from 

 Peru, but were beaten out, forged and tempered as required. 



If a Peruvian vocabulary exists, a man with Mr. Bruce's 

 unique knowledge of Murray Island would trace any 

 similarity if it was there. I have been unable to obtain 

 any vocabulary of the Oholos or Inca language which is 

 still spoken, to compare with the vocabularies in "The 

 Voyage of the Fly;" later ones would be inferior for the 

 purpose. The legendary lore about Kos and Abob fits most 

 remarkably with matter contained in my former paper 

 (June 2, 1909). The derivation of "Kos" is probably 



COS 



OAS 



CASTRO. 

 The remora or sucking-fish is used in Torres Straits for 

 catching turtle, in exactly the same manner that the Oaribs 

 use it. 



The everyday experience of our law courts tells us how 

 a truth is evolved from most conflicting evidence. The 

 various witnesses, when they have put together in their 

 minds the shreds of knowledge received through their eyes, 

 can only state on oath the view from their mind's eye. 



