1 66 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



with an intention of {pending three or four days 

 in the woods, without returning on hoard to 

 fleep. I was obliged to purfue this courfe in or- 

 der to collect the productions which grew at a 

 great diitance from our fhips. 



We had on board a great variety of European 

 feed*;, which it was efiential to propagate at this 

 extremity of New Holland. The degree of tem- 

 perature which is there experienced made us hope 

 that they would thrive. The gardener was occu- 

 pied in preparing a fmall fpot of ground on which 

 they were to be fown. This garden was formed 

 quite clofe to the eaft fhore of the harbour, to 

 the eaft-north-caft of our anchorage. 



That night we went and flept on the banks 

 of a rivulet, fituated at the weftern extremity 

 of a great lake, the fouth bank of which we 

 walked along the next day. We there faw a 

 few pelicans, but could not get near enough to 

 fire at them. 



Piron, the painter of the expedition, was of the 

 party : he took different views of thefe places. 

 Some round hillocks, covered with very tall trees, 

 re feen in the diftance, added in a pe- 

 culiar degree to the beauty of the landfcape. 



It was Decenary for us to mcafurc back our 

 , in order to proceed to the opposite bank. 

 Piron returned on board. 



I prefently 



