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time allowed ; as he also did at the following places that 

 Captain King touched at — Cape Flinders, Pelican Island, 

 Haggerston's Island, and Cairncross Island; of this latter 

 island, Mr Cunningham observes, — " I landed with Captain 

 King on the western sandy point, which is covered with a 

 small thick brush, having at its extremity a dark shaded 

 damp wood of small extent, where I remarked the following 

 plants; Guettarda octandra, a very luxuriant tree, having a 

 stem (hollow) six feet diameter, and wlxose base is much like 

 the spurred butt of a Ficusj Maba laiirina bearing green 

 fruits ; a large species of Ficus, without fructification ; Mimu- 

 sops Kanki abounding in fruit; Cordyline canncefolia ; and a 

 strong plant of luxuriant arborescent growth, suspected to be 

 of the same natural family as seen last year, and at this time 

 also without fructification. Several unknown twining and 

 climbing plants ascended to the summits of the highest trees, 

 and forming with Flagellaria indica, a strong impassable 

 barrier. I had traversed this little wood in several directions 

 without making any discovery, or detecting any plant of im- 

 portance ; when, in my return to the departing boat, I found 

 a liliaceous plant, having an elliptical nerved leaf, as in Pan- 

 cratium amboinense, I hastily dug up all the bulbs of this 

 interesting plant I could find : it grows in damp leafy shaded 

 situations, and although not in flower, little doubt can exist 

 of its being Mr Brown's Caloste^nma alba.'' 



On the 21st, the party landed again on South Goulburn 

 Island, for the purpose of wooding and watering, and where 

 they were as usual exposed to the mischievous attacks of the 

 natives of that place; but, with the precaution that always per- 

 vaded Captain King's movements, nothing serious happened to 

 the voyagers. The greatest inconvenience that accrued was 

 the preventing Mr Cunningham's making extensive excursions, 

 as any attempt to have gone to a distance, from the wood and 

 watering parties, would inevitably have brought him into con- 

 tact with the armed irritated natives, who were evidently lurk- 

 ing about the vicinity. Sim's Island was also visited again ; 

 of the results of his trip on shore, Mr Cunningham observes, 



