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large nor plentiful. Mr. Cunningham saw two 1322. 
land snakes, one of which was about four feet in JanTia. 
length ; the colour of its back was black, and the 
belly yejlow ; the only quadruped seen, was a 
small opossum. A seal of the hair species, like 
those of Rottnest Island, was seen on the rocks, 
probably of the same description that Dampier 
found in the maw of the shark ; and also what 
was found by the French on Faure Island, which 
M. Peron supposed to be an herbivorous animal, 
and described as a dugonf. 
On the 24 th Mr. Roe visited the Cape, to fix 24 
on the post a memorial of our visit ; an inscrip- 
tion was carved upon a small piece of wood, in 
the back of which was deposited another memo- 
randum written upon vellum; the wood was of 
the size of the sheave-hole of the larger post, 
into which it was fixed, and near it Mr. Roe piled 
up a heap of stones. After this was accom- 
plished, the party walked for some distance along 
the beach, to the south-west of the cape, where 
they found the remains of two or three whales 
that had been lately wrecked ; a small piece of 
putrefied flesh was also seen, about two or three 
feet long, one side of which was covered with 
^ Dampier, vol. iii. p. 87. 
t Peron, vol. ii. p. 227, et seq,, and De Fee vcinet, p. 201. 
