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remarkably fine spacious harbour, between six and seven 

 P.M., and shortly after we anchored one of the men caught a 

 fish about nine inches long, which was, as usual, handed over 

 to me. This was the ChcBnichthys esox, one of the Trachinidm 

 described some years ago by Dr. Glinther from an old stuffed 

 specimen in the British Museum, which had formed one of a 

 collection of fish made by Captain King at Port Famine. 

 When newly caught its sides were elegantly barred with 

 narrow bands of grayish-black and violet-purple. Attached 

 to the skin I found several specimens of a parasitic crustacean of 

 the genus Galigus, which, being apparently the type of a new 

 species, I have named G. dKEnichthydis. 



On the 2d the surveying officers were busily occupied in 

 making a plan of the harbour, and several of those who were 

 not engaged in this manner, including myself, left the ship 

 early in the forenoon to explore the surrounding land. Up 

 at the head of the harbour was a space of flat and tolerably 

 open ground, overgrown with coarse grass, and here we observed 

 some geese {Chloephaga poliocephala) feeding, several of which 

 were shot from the boat. We then landed to capture the 

 wounded, and spent some hours rambling about in search of 

 game and specimens. I obtained some handsome lichens and 

 mosses on the trees, but did not observe anything novel till 

 I arrived at an open space of mossy ground, when I suddenly 

 perceived the foliage of a plant with creeping stems, with 

 which I was unacquainted, and to my delight recognised as a 

 species for which I had been hunting for the last year — namely 

 one, of which a specimen, not in flower, had been sent home 

 by Captain King nearly forty years before, and deposited with 

 his collection in the Kew Herbarium, and of which Dr. 

 Hooker was anxious that I should, if possible, procure flower- 

 ing examples, with a view to the determination of its true 



