22nd May 1898

SUNDAY

We carried on Usual Sunday Routine after Church our officers went on a shooting expedition they came back just before sunset with a very good bag which was shared out amongst the ships company, they brought back with them half dozen very good specimen of the flying fox, which I had never heard talk of before they were just like a very large bat, but the body resemble that of a fox, when flying in the air they look like a crow, but fly more steady and the spread of the wings are much broader, they live in the tops of tree, and the food consist of young leaves and fruit, the natives use the large wing bone as a needle having a hole through the thickest end, through which they pass the native made thread so that it act as a eye.