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Melaleucas, Hibiscus, Banksia, and several rambling- 

 plants^, with a few larg-e palms scattered in places ; 

 there was not much gTass^ except at intervals. 



Oct. 9tJi. — This morning- we came to a river, 

 running- into Princess Charlotte's Bay, in lat. 14° 

 30' S., long". 143° 56'. It was deep, and about 100 

 yards wide, the water salt, and the tide was flowing* 

 up fast, and the banks were hig*h. A few scattered 

 mang"roves, and a leg-uminous tree, with roug-h cor- 

 date leaves, and larg-e one or two-seeded leg'umes, 

 were gTOwing- on the banks. We were oblig'ed to 

 turn southerly for a short distance, and found what 

 we had fancied was a river to be only a small creek. 

 We crossed it about twelve or fourteen miles from 

 the sea, but the water was brackish. The trees on 

 the sandy ground were broad-leafed melaleucas, 

 Grevilleas, and nondas, and by the water-holes which 

 we occasionally saw, were stravadiums and drooping- 

 melaleucas. I also saw a species of Stravadium 

 with racemes of white flowers, much long-er than 

 the others, with leaves ten inches long- by fom- 

 inches broad, and the trees thirty feet hig'h. Keep- 

 ino- at a distance from the sea-coast to avoid the 

 salt water creeks, and to obtain g-ood g-rass for 

 our horses, Ave halted in the middle of the day, and 

 were visited by a great many natives, coming- in all 

 directions, and making- a great noise. They ap- 

 peared to have been collecting* nondas, as a great 

 raan}^ of their women were carrying large basket- 

 fuls away. After the women were out of sight 



