VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



We loon found, at the entrance of the woo'd, 

 a fried, erected by the natives, in order to fheltci 

 them from the fea breezes ; it was conftrucled of 

 ilrips of the bark of the eucalyptus refinifera, in- 

 terwoven in flakes fixed perpendicularly in the 

 ground, and difpofed fo as to form an arch of 

 the third of the circumference of a circle, being 

 three meters in length by one meter in height. 

 Its convex fide was turned towards the Tea : a 

 fmall fpot of a circular form covered with afhes, 

 and clofe by it the remains of fhell-fifh, indi- 

 cated the place where the inhabitants had pre- 

 pared their meal. This fort of rkreen is very 

 ufeful to prevent their fires from being extin- 

 guifhed, when the fea breezes blow with vio- 

 lence. 



After having crofTcd a tongue of land, we 

 proceeded with difficulty in the midft of the 

 moving fands of a vail beach, the fkirts of which 

 the fea had juft overflowed. 



We found at the entrance of the wood another 

 fhed, of the fame fhape and height as the former, 

 but it was twice as long: we law in it fomc 

 fragments of water- vefTcls. They were pieces 

 of the funis pahnatus, which had been damaged, 

 and could be of no farther life to the inhabitants. 



"W c "ere now on the banks of a lake which 

 -oinmunicatcs with the fea at high water. This 



lake 



