A STRANGE ANIMAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4285, 20 November 1876, Page 4

A STRANGE ANIMAL.

A remarkable amphibious animal—probably a yeritable.bunyip—is said by the ' Queanbeyau Age' to have been seen in the Molonglo River, near the Queanbeyan Junction. The river was in half-flood, and Frederick Hincksman, John M'Pherson, Luke Colverwell, and JTames Curley were about to cross. Tlincksman entered, first, followed by the others, M'Pherson bringing up the rear. Where 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 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 the animal with stones for a distance of fifty yards, when getting into the deep water it finally disappeared. None of the party seem to be able to give a minute description of the creature; but M'Pherson, who had the best opportunity of viewing it, says its face resembled that ot a child, and that it swam with extended arms or long tins. It was whitish in color, 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.