66 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



Fig. 5. Calyx, with the ftamina and the 

 germen, the corolla having been removed. 



Fig. 6. Capfulc, beneath which is feen the 

 ^calyx. 



Fig. 7. One of the valves of the capfule. 



Citizen Beaupre, the geographical engineer, 

 fet out in the evening in the Admiral's barge, 

 in order to vifit the great bight which we had 

 the year before difcovered to the northward, on 

 coming out of D'Entrecafteaux's Strait. The 

 principal queftion was, whether it would not 

 afford fome opening that might communicafe 

 with the fea, and whether Maria's Iflands were 

 jceally feparated from the main land ; for this 

 point had not been fufficiently elucidated by 

 Marion, nor even by Captain Cook. 



The north wind, which blew on the i6th, 

 during the whole courfe of the day, prevented 

 US from weighing. We went on fhore, while 

 gur fifliermen proceeded towards the mouth of 

 ^he Strait. The flood-tide brought thither a 

 great quantity of fifli ; they caught feveral fpe- 

 Qies of rays of a very large iize, fome of them 

 v^eighing upwards of twelve myriagrams. 



The next day, the 17th, in the morning, we 

 weighed anchor, but with a breeze too faint so 

 ilcm the current, which was againft us; we 

 were, therefore, foon obliged to come to again. 



Towards 



