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After sailing eastward a short distance the water became very 
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erect, iets or clim! imbing, hawser-like stems and branches, 
and lar: whi te flow 
x ene lay through seven creeks and seven lakes. These are 
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progress along them is much impeded by snags, beneath, on either 
side, and overhead. 
For a great part of the distance we had either to lie down in 
the boats in order to save our heads or to get o 
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incursion, namely the saw-cabbage m (Paurotis Wrightii), 
the least known and most distinctive a ea palms of the eastern 
he western coast. 
