3rO VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



hometan religion have there a mofque, the 

 roofs of which diminifhing by ftories in pro- 

 portion as they rife, afford a very agreeable 

 objcdl to the eye, as may be feen in Plaie XLIIy 

 which reprefents part of this village. 



The coafl: to the eaft ward of the village is 

 watered only by very fmail rivers; but at a 

 demi-myriameter to the north- well: we afcended 

 a very large one, which the inhabitants call Acr- 

 Beffary and which alfo difcharges itfclf into the 

 roadftead; this river, which is very deep, was up- 

 wards of eighty meters in width throughout the 

 extent of from three to four kilometers which 

 we examined of its courfe. The lOand of 

 Bouro is undoubtedly indebted to the great 

 elevation of the mountains for fo confiderable 

 a river. Its banks feveral times ofiered to my 

 view the beautiful fhrub known under the 

 name of portlandia grandiflora. 



The round pebbles of the fummit of thefe 

 mountains, w hich I found on the flu)res of the 

 different rivers, were fragnients of rock of the 

 li'-iturc of quartz mixed with mica, and not un- 

 frequcntly of a fand-fionc, the component 

 parts of which are alfo quartz. 



Birds, efpccialiy parrakects, are multiplied to 

 fuch a degree in thio ifland, that it is very pro- 

 bable that from them it derives its name, 

 vvhi'.-.h in Mrday fignifics bird. 



Stags, 



