have not seen anywhere besides. I have given the pictures of 4 several
birds on this coast.

The land animals that we saw here were only a sort of raccoon, different
from those of the West Indies, chiefly as to their legs; for these have
very short forelegs; but go jumping upon them as the others do (and like
them are very good meat) and a sort of iguana, of the same shape and size
with other iguanas described, but differing from them in 3 remarkable
particulars: for these had a larger and uglier head, and had no tail: and
at the rump, instead of the tail there, they had a stump of a tail which
appeared like another head; but not really such, being without mouth or
eyes: yet this creature seemed by this means to have a head at each end;
and, which may be reckoned a fourth difference, the legs also seemed all
4 of them to be forelegs, being all alike in shape and length, and
seeming by the joints and bending to be made as if they were to go
indifferently either head or tail foremost. They were speckled black and
yellow like toads, and had scales or knobs on their backs like those of
crocodiles, plated onto the skin, or stuck into it, as part of the skin.
They are very slow in motion; and when a man comes nigh them they will
stand still and hiss, not endeavouring to get away. Their livers are also
spotted black and yellow: and the body when opened has a very unsavoury
smell. I did never see such ugly creatures anywhere but here. The iguanas
I have observed to be very good meat: and I have often eaten of them with
pleasure; but though I have eaten of snakes, crocodiles and alligators,
and many creatures that look frightfully enough, and there are but few I
should have been afraid to eat of if pressed by hunger, yet I think my
stomach would scarce have served to venture upon these New Holland
iguanas, both the looks and the smell of them being so offensive.

The sea-fish that we saw here (for here was no river, land, or pond of