so as to ascertain where to search for the home of the 

 parasite. 



Apart from the importation into Australia on numerous 

 occasions of cattle, sheep, horses, etc. from Great Britain, 

 an examination of works dealing with the early history of 

 these Colonies indicates several other sources. For instance 

 in October, 1787, when Governor Phillip and the First Fleet 

 touched at the Cape of Good Hope on their way to Aus- 

 tralia, 1 they took on board two bulls, six cows, forty-four 

 sheep and four goats, together with horses and hogs. For 

 the greater part of a century after this date, doubtless 

 many other vessels calling at the Cape similarly brought 

 away some live stock. Cunningham' -2 states that the horned 

 cattle in New South Wales amounted to 21,513 in 1813 and 

 to 68,149 in 1821, and were "derived from the Bengal 

 buffalo variety, with smooth skins, short snail horns, and 

 humpy shoulders, and from the various English breeds that 

 have been at different times imported." 



The Public Library authorities of Sydney have a MS. 

 agreement between Captain Bremer and the Timor Govern- 

 ment (1825) for the former to export cattle to Fort Dundas, 

 a military and convict settlement founded on Melville 

 Island off the coast of the Northern Territory of South 

 Australia. Acting on this authority, buffaloes were im- 

 ported in or before the year 1826, but whether other 

 bovines accompanied them or not does not appear. When 

 Major Campbell," on September 19, 1826, relieved Captain 

 Barlow at this post, he found that sixteen buffaloes for 

 Blaughter bad just been landed from Timor. Later, in 1S27 

 - 1829, the settlement was removed to Rallies Bay on the 



1 "History of Now South Wales from the Records," Vol. i, by G. B. 

 Barton, p. 72. 



' " Two years in New South Wales," by P. Cunningham, Surgeon E.N. 

 * "17, 2nd edition, Vol. 



