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Aneiteum to see—for he would not otherwise believe it—a neighbour- 
ing island where peace prevailed. He could not imagine how men of 
different tribes on one island could live in harmony, until he saw it. 
We left Aneiteum on December 1st, and on the following morning hove 
to for an hour off Futuna, or Erronan, to land an Aneiteum missionary 
teacher and his wife, and then proceeded to Tanna, which we reached 
in the evening, anchoring in Port Resolution, where Captain Padden 
has an establishment. Finding the Juno here on her route to Sydney, 
vid Aneiteum, More, and Isle of Pines, we are glad to avail ourselves 
of an opportunity, the first for six months, of writing to our friends. 
We sail this afternoon for Guadaleanar, and do not expect to reach 
Sydney until February, long before which time we shall have been on 
reduced allowance of provisions. The only casualties this cruise have 
been the deaths of a passenger (son of the Captain), and one of the 
seamen, named Ruthen; the latter from consumption." 
Second General Report* of the Government Botanist of Victoria, 
on the VEGETATION of the Colony. 
[The unwearied zeal and indefatigable exertions which have charae- 
terized the long and arduous journeys in the interior of this important 
Colony, deserve some more permanent record than that which is afforded 
by the mere Government Reports, and we gladly publish the present 
one in our pages.—Ep.] 
5 Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 5th October, 1854. 
. Tn obedience to instructions from His Excellency the Lieutenant- 
Governor, I do myself the honour of transmitting the Second Annual 
Report on the progress of my botanical researches. 
Tnstructed by the Government in October, 1853, to examine the 
vegetation of the Grampians and of the adjacent ranges, and to visit 
_ afterwards such districts as I deemed most advisable to explore, I com- 
menced my journey, in accordance with these directions, on the 1st of 
November, 1853. 
- The low land between Melbourne and Mount Sturgeon offered but 
. very few novelties to the collections formed during the previous season ; 
but in the Grampians, the Serra, and the Victoria Ranges, I had an 
(77 See our Vol. VI. p. 128, for the first Report, there published —Ep. 
