mainland, and the animals were transported thither. In 

 1846, the buffaloes in Northern Australia had increased to 

 a great extent, and Leichhardt 1 saw herds of buffalo and 

 the whole country " as closely covered with buffalo tracks 

 as a well-stocked run in New South Wales could be with 

 bullock tracks." If the spoor of an animal with a divided 

 hoof seen by Sir George Grey 2 in the north-west of Aus- 

 tralia in 1837-8, be really that of a buffalo, as he suggested, 

 this may indicate that by means of Malay prows or in some 

 other way, these animals had been introduced into another 

 part of Australia some years before the settlement at Port 

 Dundas, though they may have wandered from the latter 

 place, which is about a thousand miles away, in that time. 



Camels seem to have been first introduced into Australia 5 

 by Sir Thomas Elder in 1866, when 121 were shipped from 

 Kurrachee in India, 121 of which were landed at Port 

 Augusta in South Australia. From this date, various 

 other shipments have been made from time to time from 

 India, 4 the last being the arrival in the north-west of Aus- 

 tralia of 500 camels in 1907 from the same port as the first 

 shipment. As it was in these latter animals that we found 

 worm-nests, it may be supposed that amongst those arriving 

 in 1866 some also contained these parasites. Camels are 

 now common throughout the drier parts of Australia. 



To summarize, it will be seen that cattle have been 

 introduced to Australia from Great Britain and South 

 Africa: that buffaloes were brought from Timor at least; 

 and that camels came from India. Horses seem to have 

 been derived from European breeds and Arab stallions. 



1 Extract from Leichhardt's Diary, 1846, in Houth Australian Register, 

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