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which gave us as many cocca-nuts as we defircd. 

 We had with us fome feamen, who finding this 

 liquor much too fwect, mixed with it brandy 

 enough to pleafe their taile, and we faw with 

 plealure that our hoft did not diflike this be- 

 verage. After breakfafl every one followed his 

 own inclination. The rendezvous had been 

 fixed at the place where we had jufi landed. 



For my part, I determined to attack the eaftern 

 mountains. I followed a path very much fre- 

 quented by the natives, and left it to penetrate 

 into the woods, whenever any glades facilitated 

 my entrance. 



The earth having fallen down in a number of 

 places, left the rock expoicd to view, and I per- 

 ceived that a very hard fand-flone formed the 

 bafe of thefe mountains. I had alfo oblerved 

 the fame fort of (tone on the fhores of the road- 

 ftead along which we had juft ranged. 



I foon gathered a very fine fpecics of com- 

 pound flower of the cony/a genus, remarkable, 

 like feveral fpecies of mehjlomu, for three prin- 

 cipal nerves on each leaf: it has fo much the 

 port of plants of this laft genua, that I fhould 

 haw been inclined to confidcr it of that clafs, 

 had I not fecn its flower. 



Tile phalanger of Buffon (duielphis orientalis, 

 Linn.) inhabited the foot of thefe mountains : I 



met 



he 

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