IV. Letters received from the naturalists attached to the transit-of-Venus expedition at Rodriguez

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Dear Sir,—I write to give you a short account of my proceedings and success here so far, in my explorations of the Rodriguez bone-caverns. I must confess to a more or less degree of disappointment on my first inspection of the caverns; and you will understand the cause, I think, when I inform you that out of thirteen caves which I found on my arrival, and which I believed till lately to be the only ones, twelve bore evident, and some recent, signs of previous digging. However, I set to work at once, and, with much diligent search, had found five new caves by the time that we had finished the first thirteen.