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tliis baked meal^ leaving- behind some fish hooks as 

 payment. In the camp we also found a consider- 

 able quantity of Pandanus fruit, which gTows very 

 plentifully here. Althoug'h, however, it is sweet 

 and pleasant to the taste, I found that the natives 

 did not eat largely of it, as it possessed ver}'' re- 

 laxing- qualities, and caused violent headache, with 

 swelling- beneath the eyes. 



Some narrow belts of land we passed here be- 

 trayed indications of having- been frequentty inun- 

 dated by fresh water. The ground was very uneven, 

 full of small hillocks which were hidden by long- 

 grass, which caused our weak horses to fall very 

 frequently. 



Sept. 16th. — This day we had better travelling-^ 

 the soil becoming a strong- gre} ish loam j the forest 

 land open and free from scrub, the trees principally 

 consisting of iron-bark, box, and the leguminous 

 tree, with bi-pinnate leaves, and dark fissured bark 

 I have before alluded to. We saw here a o-reat 

 many pigeons of various kinds ; Mr. Wall shot one 

 pair of Geojyhaps plmnifera, which he preserved j 

 also a pair of small pigeons of a greyish colour, 

 with red round the eyes, which he considered new. 

 I also saw a large tree and obtained specimens of it, 

 belonging to the natural order BignoniacccB, with 

 terminal spikes of yellow flowers, and rough cordate 

 leaves ; and a Proteaceous plant with long- compound 

 racemes of white flowers, and deeply cut leaves, 

 resembling a tree with true pinnate leaves. The 



