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swift.” On the next day, he tells us : 66 This day almost 
everybody had seen the animal which the pigeon-shooters had 
brought an account of the day before ; and one of the seamen, 
who had been rambling in the woods, told us on his return 
that he verily believed he had seen the devil. We naturally 
enquired in what form he had appeared, and his answer was, 
says John, 6 As large as a one-gallon keg, and very like it; he 
had horns and wings, yet he crept so slowly through the grass 
that, if I had not been afeared , I might have touched him.’ 
This formidable apparition we afterwards, however, discovered 
to have been a bat (a Feting Fox).” “ Early the next day,” 
Captain Cook continues, 66 as I was walking in the morning, 
at a little distance from the ship, I saw myself one of the 
animals which had been described : it was of a light mouse- 
colour, and in size and shape very much resembling a grey- 
hound ; it had a long tail also, which it carried like a grey- 
hound ; and I should have taken it for a wild dog if, instead of 
running, it had not leapt like a hare or deer.” Mr. Banks also 
had an imperfect view of this animal, and was of opinion that 
its species was hitherto unknown. The work exhibits an ex- 
cellent figure of the animal. Again, on Sunday, July 8, being 
still in Endeavour Eiver, Captain Cook tells us that some of 
the crew “ set out, with the first dawn, in search of game, and 
in a walk of many miles they saw four animals of the same 
kind, two of which Mr. Banks’s greyhound fairly chased ; but 
they threw him out at a great distance, by leaping over the 
long, thick grass, which prevented his running. This animal 
was observed not to run upon four legs, but to bound or leap 
forward upon two, like the jerboa.” Finally, on Saturday, July 
14, “Mr. Grore, who went out with his gun, had the good 
fortune to kill one of these animals which had been so much 
the subject of our speculation ; ” adding , 66 This animal is called 
by the natives kanguroo. The next day (Sunday, July 15) 
our kanguroo was dressed for dinner, and proved most excellent 
meat.” 
Such is the earliest notice of this creature’s observation by 
Englishmen ; but Cornelius de Bruins, a Dutch traveller, saw,* 
as early as 1711, specimens of a species (now named after him, 
Macrojpus Brunii ), which he called Filctnder , and which were 
kept in captivity in a garden at Batavia. A very fair repre- 
sentation of the animal is given — one showing the aperture of 
the pouch. This species was, moreover, described both by 
Pallas f and by Schreber.J 
* See Cornells de Bruins, Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie. 
Amsterdam, 1714, p. 374, fig. 213. 
+ Pallas, Act. Acad. Sc. Petrop. 1777. Pt. 2, p. 299, Tab. 4. figs. 4 and 5. 
t Schreber, Sangth. 111., p. 551, pi. 153. 1778. 
