. Narrative of the voyage of Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley during the years 1846-50 : to which is added Mr. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula . Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848; Stanley, Owen; Rattlesnake (Ship); Natural history. 286 OBTAIN TWO OPOSSUMS. peared to be quiet g'entle animals, until much irri- tatedj when they bite hard. We fed them at first on ripe cocoa-nuts, of which they were very fond j but latterly they became accustomed to pea-soup. They spent most of the day in sleep in a comer of tibe hen-coop
. Narrative of the voyage of Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley during the years 1846-50 : to which is added Mr. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula . Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848; Stanley, Owen; Rattlesnake (Ship); Natural history. 286 OBTAIN TWO OPOSSUMS. peared to be quiet g'entle animals, until much irri- tatedj when they bite hard. We fed them at first on ripe cocoa-nuts, of which they were very fond j but latterly they became accustomed to pea-soup. They spent most of the day in sleep in a comer of tibe hen-coop where they were kept, each on its haunches with the tail coiled up in front, the body arched, and the head covered by the fore paws and doubled down between the thig'hs; at night, how- ever, they were more active and restless, their large reddish yellow eyes being- then obscured by the dilated pupU, which during the day appears as a narrow vertical line. One was frequently taken on deck towards evening and allowed to climb about the rigging, moving very slowly, and endeavouring to get up as high as possible. The natives resemble those seen at Brumer islands (from which we were distant about thirty-six nules) so closely that I saw no points regarding them deserving of separate notice, and their language is the same, judging from a small vocabulary of about seventy words. The only manufactured article new. Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original MacGillivray, John, 1822-1867; Busk, George, 1807-1886; Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888; Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854; White, Adam, 1817-1879. London : T. & W. Boone
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