OF LA PEROUSE, ^I^ 



when he found that we would not accede to his 

 offer. 



Thefe natives brou.q;ht us a ocreat number of 

 parrots, of the fpecies called pjiitacus alexandri^ 

 and the white crcfled cockatoo, (pfiitaciis 

 crijlalus.) 



We were not a little furprifed to fee in their 

 polTefnon, cottons and linens made of the a^ave 

 'vivipara, which they told us they had them- 

 felves manufac5lured. 



1 availed myfelf of our anchoring frequently 

 in this ftrait, to go on fliore. I there found a 

 great quantity of plants, which I had not before 

 met with elfewhere, and among which I muft 

 mention the grape-form nutmeg-tree, already 

 defcribed by Citizen Lamarck; its fruit is not 

 at all aromatic. I alfo gathered the cynovu'tra 

 ramifioray the gyrinocarpus of Goertner, and va- 

 rious fpecies o^ vTxlt^in^ (calamus), which after 

 running up to the top of the tallefl: trees, came 

 down to the ground, and again afcended others 

 equally lofty, frequently affording ftems feveral 

 hundred meters in length. 



The fruits of the bovibax ceila, and feveral 

 new fpecies of the fame genus, which were 

 very widely difiufed in the foreft, aifcirded an 

 abundance of food to numerous troops of pigmy 

 monkics (fimia fylvaniis) ; we killed feme of 

 them in order to preferve their fl-;in. 



We 



