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but a very scanty supply of water, there being none but what 
is caught in hollows in the rocks, which the ravines furnish 
after heavy rains, they nevertheless, found an ample support 
inits varied herbage, moistened by the dews at night. The 
produce of this stock has at various periods, been greatly 
thinned, but as the animals have not been disturbed during 
the last twelve months, their numbers are again considerably 
augmented. We had no means of estimating the aggregate 
number of either on the island, as the swine lie close during 
the day, beneath the dense underwood, in the ravines ; when, 
also, but few goats make their appearance, the greater body 
being. within excavations in the rocky face of the cliffs, per- 
fectly inaccessible to man. 
* Of the plants, I have to remark that they were, with but 
few exceptions, the same as those of Norfolk Island. Among 
them were a species of Hibiscus (H. insularis, Endl.), which 
has a suffruticose, spinous stem, bore decayed yellowish 
flowers, appearing not to differ from a plant found at Port 
Macquarie. I collected flowering specimens of Blackburnia 
pinnata, not previously met with in that state, and also of 
Capparis citrina, A. Cunn. MSS. (Busbeckia nobilis, Endl.), 
and the ripe fruit of Mimusops laurina, A. Cunn. MSS. 
(Achras costata, Endl.), which being produced in abundance, 
afford considerable provender forthe pigs. In the shades, 
I detected a dark, glossy, pinnated-leaved twiner ; it appeared 
to be an undescribed species of Clitoria (Clianthus Baueri, 
A. Cunn. MSS.). , 
“ About four o'clock, we returned to the tent, when the 
officer who had accompanied me to the island, joined the 
boat, which I had detained on his account, and returned to 
the settlement ; and as I proposed to occupy myself 
another day on this isolated spot, } requested that upon his 
eaving my encampment, he would send the boat over for me 
on the 19th. 
M 18th.—During the preceding night, the wind was er: 
| tremely violent at periods, and some rain fell between the 
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Squalls; and as the morning sky was much overcast, and the 
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