Herbert and Gideon Spilett killed two kangaroos with bows and arrows, and also an animal which strongly resembled both a hedgehog and an ant-eater. It was like the first because it rolled itself into a ball, and bristled with spines, and the second because it had sharp claws, a long slender snout which terminated in a bird's beak, and an extendible tongue, covered with little thorns which served to hold the insects.
Harbert y Gedeón Spilett mataron dos canguros a flechazos y además un animal que se parecía mucho a un erizo y a un oso hormiguero; al primero, porque se hacía bola y erizaba sus púas; y al segundo, porque tenía uñas cavadoras, un hocico largo y delgado, que terminaba en pico de ave, y una lengua extensible guarnecida de espinas, que le servía para sujetar los insectos.