Saturday 14th Gentle breezes at SE and Hazey weather, In the PM compleated our water and got on board all the Bread and part of the Boatswains stores - in the evening sent the turtlers out again. In the AM employd geting on board stone ballast and airing the Spare sails - Mr Gore being in the Country shott one of the Animals before spoke of it was a small one of the sort weighing only 28 pound clear of the entrails. its body was        length the head neck and shoulders ^of this Animal was very small in proportion to the other parts - it was hare lip'd but the head and ears and teeth were most like a Hares of ^any animal I know the tail was nearly as long as the body, thick next the rump and tapering towards the end - the fore legs were 8 Inch long and the hind 22. its progression is by hoping or Jumping ^7 or 8 feet at each hop upon its hind legs only for in this it makes no use of the fore, which seem to be only design'd for scratching in the ground &Ca, the Skin is cover'd with a short hairy fur of a dark Mouse or Grey Colour — Excepting the head and ears which I thought was something like a Hare's, it bears no sort of resemblance to any European animal I ever saw, it is said to bear much resemblance to the Gerbua excepting in size the Gerbua being no larger than a common rat —