TOMBS.
As I never, during my subsequent travels in Australia, saw anything at all resembling the painted caves which I have described in the ninth chapter, I shall here add some observations on the subject, which I could not have there detailed without too great an interruption to the narrative.
Two other instances of Australian caves which contain paintings have been recorded.

The first is by Captain Flinders and the second by Mr.
Cunningham in King's voyage.
PAINTINGS AT CHASM ISLAND.
The caves found by Flinders were in Chasm Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and are thus described:* In the steep sides of the chasms were deep holes or caverns undermining the cliffs; upon the walls of which I found rude drawings, made with charcoal, and something like red paint, upon the white ground of the rock.

These drawings represented porpoises, turtles, kangaroos, and a human hand; and Mr.Westall, who went afterwards to see them, found the representation of a kangaroo, with a file of thirty-two persons following after it.

The third person of the band was twice the height of the others, and held in his hand something resembling the waddy or wooden sword of the natives of Port Jackson.
(*Footnote.

Flinders' Voyages volume 2 page 158.) ...
PAINTINGS AT CLACK'S ISLAND.* (*Footnote.