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are in general altogether destitute of land quadrupeds,except such as appear to have been conveyed to themby men. Kerguelen’s Land , Juan Fernandez, the Gal-lapagos, and the Isles de Lobos, are examples of thisfact. Among all the groups of fertile islands in thePacific Ocean , no quadrupeds have been found, exceptJogs, hogs, rats, and a few bats. The bats have beenfound in New Zealand and the more westerly groups ;they may probably have made their way along theuhain of islands which extend from the shores of New Guinea far into the Southern Pacific. The hogs andthe dogs appear to have been conveyed by the nativesfrom New Guinea . The Indian islands, near New Guinea , abound in oxen, buffaloes, goats, deer, hogs,Jogs , cats, and rats; but none of them are said to havereached New Guinea , except the hog and the dog. TheNew Guinea hog is of the Chinese variety, and wasprobably brought from some of the neighbouringislands, being the animal most in request amongsavages. It has run wild in New Guinea . Thence itGas been conveyed to the New Hebrides , the Tonga and Society Isles, and to the Marquesas ; but it is still^anting in the more easterly islands, and, to the south-ward, in New Caledonia .

“ Dogs may be traced from New Guinea to the New Hebrides and Fiji Isles; but they are wanting in theTonga Isles, though found among the Society andSandwich islanders, by some of whom they are usedfor food: to the southward they have been conveyed toNew Caledonia and New Zealand . In Easter Island ,the most remotely situated in this ocean, there are nodomestic animals except fowls and rats, which areeaten by the natives: these animals are found in most°f the islands; the fowls are probably from New Guinea .d 3