The principal bird is the megapodiusa gecko, and another small lizard are abundantof landshells we found a new Scarabus and a small brown Helix, in great abundance under blocks of coral, and

This lizard was probably a turpinambis.

He was to them the monster that guarded the Hesperides garden, and the beast that St. George slew; but as the common lizard was the largest reptile in Polynesia, this, too, was an heirloom from another land.

The Lizard, though now declared by naturalists to be perfectly harmless, was long considered poisonous by the ignorant; and in Sweden and Kamschatka, the green lizard is the subject of strange superstitions, and regarded with horror.