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of Rockino'liam Bay. There was an old camping- 

 place Avitli twelve or fourteen old huts near our 

 camp, hut it was not visited hy the natives during* 

 our stay there. The}^ g-enerally came to look at us 

 every day, hut always kept at a distance ; on some 

 days we saw as many as from eighty to a hundred. 

 The women and children always kept farther from 

 us than the men ; I think more from fear of our 

 dogs and horses than of ourselves. The weather 

 was cool, with showers occasional^ during* the day, 

 and at nig'lit steady rain set in. 



June 20th. — The rain continued throua'hout the 

 day, 



Jvne 21st and 22nd. — The rain still continued. 

 Two of our horses were found boo-o^ed in a creek 



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near the camp, but were soon released without 

 injury ; they had strayed hito the creek to eat the 

 aquatic grass, which is plentiful on almost all the 

 creeks between the swamps and the sea. The soil 

 here was rather stiffer than we had found it before, 

 being* a light sandy loam, and in places clayey. 

 There were not so many shells to be seen, and what 

 there were, were principally bivalves. 



Mr. Kennedy returned this evening*, and having 

 again found it impossible to cross the swamps, we 

 were obliged to return to the beach, where the travel- 

 ling was far better than among the trees. While 

 travelling inland a man was always obliged to AA'alk 

 before the carts, to cut down small trees. 



At this time we had onh' two meals per day • 



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