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Early Australian Voyages

CHAPTER XXI: REMARKS UPON THE VOYAGE
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The mould is also a coarser sand than that by the sea-side, and in some places it is clay.

Here are a great many rocks in the large savannah we were in, which are five or six feet high, and round at top like a hay-cock, very remarkable; some red and some white.

The woodland lies farther in still, where there were divers sorts of small trees, scarce any three feet in circumference, their bodies twelve or fourteen feet high, with a head of small knibs or boughs.

By the sides of the creeks, especially nigh the sea, there grow a few small black mangrove-trees.
There are but few land animals.

I saw some lizards; and my men saw two or three beasts like hungry wolves, lean like so many skeletons, being nothing but skin and bones; it is probable that it was the foot of one of those beasts that I mentioned as seen by us in New Holland.


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