Abstract
DR. WILMA GEORGE has recently brought to scientific notice what is apparently the earliest known description of an Australo-Papuan mammal and discusses its possible identity1. Briefly, in 1606 Don Diego de Prado y Tovar sailed along the southern coast of New Guinea and through Torres Strait, and in his Relacion described how on the south-eastern coast of New Guinea his party killed an animal “in the shape of a dog smaller than a greyhound, with a bare and scaly tail like that of the snake, and his testicles hang from a nerve like a thin cord; they say that it was a castor, we ate it and it was like venison, its stomach was full of ginger leaves and for that reason we ate it”.
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