106 STAY AT LIZARD ISLAND. 



low strag'g'ling' thickets^ — scattered bushes of 

 Suriana 7nariti7na and Pempliis acida fring^e the 

 sandy margin of the island^ and behind these the 

 beautiful Josephinia grandifloraj a larg^e white - 

 flowered Calyptranthus, Vitex ovata and a Trihulus 

 creep along- the sand^ or spread out their procum- 

 bent branches. 



Traces of natives^ but not very recent^ were met 

 with in a dried-up well dug* to a g-reat depth^ and 

 several low, dome-shaped huts^ and numerous fire- 

 places^ around which remains of shell-fish and turtle 

 were profusely scattered. Many of the heads of 

 these last animals were here and elsewhere seen 

 stuck upon branches of trees^ sometimes a dozen 

 tog'ether. 



July 315^—1 landed this morning- with Mr. 

 Obree^ on one of the Two Isles off Cape Flattery, 

 and we were picked up by the ship in passing*. It is 

 well-wooded^ chiefly with the Mimusops Kaukii^ 

 trees of which are here often 60 feet hig*h and 3 in 

 diameter. Under tlie bark I found two new land- 

 shells (to be described in the Appendix), one of 

 them a flattish Helix, in prodig'ious numbers, — 

 and this more than ever satisfied me that even the 

 smallest islands and detached reefs of the north-east 

 coast ma}^ have species peculiar to themselves, nor 

 did I ever return from any one of the 87 upon 

 which I landed without some acquisitions to the 

 collection. 



We remained a fortnig*ht at Lizard Island, at the 



