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spongy moss, the vivid green colour of which produces, from 
a distance, an appearance of most luxuriant pasture land. Sir 
John Narborough noticed, and thus describes them: ‘ The 
wood shows in many places as if there were plantations: for 
there were several clear places in the woods, and grass growing 
like fenced fields in England, the woods being so even by the 
sides of it.”* 
The wind, after leaving Freshwater Bay, increased, with 
strong squalls from the S.W., at times blowing so hard as to 
lay the ship almost on her broadside. It was, however, so much 
in our favour, that we reached the entrance of Port Famine 
early, and after some little detention from baffling winds, which 
always render the approach to that bay somewhat difficult, the 
ships anchored in the harbour. 
* Narborough, p. 67. 
