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CHAPTER V. 



Stay at Port D' Entncafteaux.. Indications of. its 

 Jliores being frequented .by fiavages.* ^Various .ex- 

 curfions to the interior of the country. Trees of 

 a prodigious height. Goodnefs of the foil. Black 

 fiwaus. Large trunks of trees, excavated by fire, 

 Jerve as a retreat- to the natives. -Kangouroo'. 

 Different anatomical obfervatioris compared: 

 Tracks of wild beajls at Cape Diemen.-^- Sheds 

 erecled by the natives. Frame of their hits. 

 -A violent fiquall breaks our mooring-chain. 

 IVe get aground on the mud. We meet- with 

 a young favage.We dif cover a fir ait, fry 

 which a veffel may pafs from Storm Bay to Ad- 

 venture Bay. Huts of the favdges. Seal called 



' phoca monachus. -The heart of this amphibious 

 animal has no 'foramen ovale. Other variouf 

 points of- comparative anatomy. Signs of wild 

 beajis at Cape Diemen. Huts which appeared to 

 us to have been recently inhabited. Trees fit j of 

 Jhip-buildwg. -Viviparous fly, /^larvae of which 

 foofi occafioned filejh to putrefy. Broiled liumah 

 bones found by Citizen Riche.-The Sad-maker 

 of the Recherche lofes himfelf in tha woods. The 

 two Jliips get aground on the mud Some ntewfik 

 of thefit\-ages.* Situation of the obfervatoxytvtt 

 K 4 Variation 



