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May 1770.  Botany bay

of either swamps or light sandy soil on which grew very few species of trees  one which was large yeilding a gum much like sanguis draconis but every place was coverd with vast quantities of grass  we saw many Indian houses & places where they had slept upon the grass without the least shelter  in these we left beads ribbands &c. we saw one quadruped about the size of a Rabbit  My Greyhound Just got sight of him & instantly lamd himself against a stump which lay conceald in the long grass  we saw also the dung of a large animal that had fed on grass which much resembled that of a Stag  also the footsteps of an animal clawd like a dog or wolf and as large as the latter & of a small animal whose feet were like those of a polecat or weesel  the trees over our heads abounded very much with Loryquets & Cocatoos of which we shot several  both these sorts flew in flocks of several scores together

Our second Leutenant went in a boat drudging after he had done he landed & sent the boat away  keeping with him a midshipman with whoom he set out in order to walk to the Waterers  in his

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