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Melaleucas, Hibiscus, Batiksia, and several rambling- 

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

 there was not much g-rass, except at intervals. 



Oct. 9th. — 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 

 mangroves, and a leguminous tree, with rough cor- 

 date leaves, and large one or two-seeded legumes, 

 were oTo^^ino- on the banks. We were oblio-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 Sfravadmm 

 with racemes of white flowers, much longer than 

 the others, with leaves ten inches long by four 

 inches broad, and the trees thirty feet high. Keep- 

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

 salt water creeks, and to obtain good grass for 

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

 were visited b}^ a great many natives, coming in all 

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

 peared to have been collecting nondas, as a great 

 many of their women were carrying large basket- 

 fills away. After the women were out of sight 



