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the wigwam, and on being offered a knife and some tobacco, 

 divested himself of his only garment, which he handed to 

 the officer who was bartering with him, and marched off 

 complacently with his newly acquired treasures. Heavy 

 rain now set in, and continued all that night, and throughout 

 the next day, with brief intervals. 



The morning of the 1st of May was, however, fine, and a 

 party of us accordingly left the ship early in the morning, 

 and spent the day in a cruise along the upper part of In- 

 dian Eeach, to the south of the harbour. We first entered 

 the small cove (Lackawanna of the government chart), and 

 went as far as we could get up a small river which enters 

 the head of it, afterwards proceeding for some distance down 

 the coast, landing here and there in search of specimens, 

 but without obtaining any results of special value. Numbers 

 of steamer-ducks were seen, in general too wary to permit of 

 our getting near them, as well as numerous gulls {Lams 

 dominicanus) and cormorants, several kelp-geese, and a black 

 oyster-catcher. Several Cetacea of considerable size were 

 observed blowing, and we had a long chase after an otter, 

 which, however, succeeded at length in escaping us. The 2d 

 was a day of heavy rain, and on the 3d the weather was 

 only a little improved, there being but a few short intervals 

 when the rain ceased, and the mist cleared partially off the 

 mountains. Two kingfishers flew about the ship for some 

 time, uttering their harsh, peculiar cry, and one lighted on 

 the mizzenmast, sitting there for a short time. There was 

 but little rain on the forenoon of the 4th, but in the after- 

 noon it set in again in torrents. One of the members of a 

 wooding-party, who spent the day on shore, brought me two 

 species of Coleoptera, which he had found among the timber — 

 one a Ehyncophorous species, the EuUejpharus Twdipennis, and 



