A STRANGE ANIMAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 776, 2 March 1877, Page 4

A STRANGE ANIMAL.

A remarkable amphibious animal—probably a veritable bunyip—is said by the Queanbeyan Age to have been seen in the Molonglo River, near the Queanbeyan Junction. The river was in half flood. Frederick 11 incksman, John M'iTiei’son, Luke Colverwtll, and James Curley were about to cross. Hincksman entered first, followed by the others, M‘l’herson bringing up the rear. Whore they entered the stream was about knee deep, and Hincksman’s horse shied at what he supposed was a rock, but as soon as he had passed on, the object proceeded up the river, following in the trail of the horsemen by a kind of diving undulating motion, frequently coming to the surface and again disappearing. After landing on the other side, the party pelted tho animal with stones for a distance of fifty yards, when, getting into tho deep water, it finally disappeared. None of the party seem able to give a minute description of the creature ; but MTTicrson, who had the best opopportunity of viewing it, says its face resembled that of a child, and that it swam with extended arms or long fins. It was whitish in colour, and the size of a Newfoundland dog. That some unknown animal has its abode in our rivers thereabouts, there can no longer be any doubt, as several persons from time to time have caught a glimpse of it.