24^ VOYAGE IN gEARCH 



E.vplanation of the Figures. Plate XLL 



Fig. I. ^r^nch of the antholoma montana* 



Fig. 2. Flower. 



Fig. 3, Receptacle, (lamina, and germen. 



Fig. 4. Receptacle and germen. 



Fig- 5. Corolla. 



Fig. 6. Stamina magnified. 



One of the geographers of our party, having 

 during this time gone to the diftance of a ki-, 

 lometer, in order to determine the fituation of 

 the reefs which he could difcover from the top 

 of a very high peak, received g, vilit from a 

 native who came up to him with a threatening 

 air. The favage was armed with a dart and a 

 club, and we were afraid that he intended to 

 attack our companion ; but he contented him- 

 felf with examining the inftruments he was 

 ufmg, without giving him the fmalleft fubjedt 

 of complaint, 



We reached the fhip about the middle of the 

 day. Alonglide I obferved a double canoe 

 carrying two fails. She was conftrucled in the 

 fame manner as thofe of the inhabitants of 

 New Caledonia, but the natives who were in her 

 fpoke the language of the inhabitants of the 

 Friendly Iflands. They were eight in number, 

 fcven men and a woman, all very mufcular, 

 (See Plate XXXIF.) They told us that the 



ifland 



