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Melaleucas, Hibiscus, Banksia, and several rambling' 

 plants, with a few large palms scattered in places ; 

 there was not much grass, except at intervals. 



Oct. 9th. — This morning we came to a river, 

 running into Princess Charlotte's Bay, in lat. 14° 

 30' S., long. 143° 66'. It was deep, and about 100 

 yards wide, the water salt, and the tide was flowing 

 up fast, and the banks were high, A few scattered 

 mangroves, and a leguminous tree, with rough cor- 

 date leaves, and large one or two-seeded legumes, 

 were growing on the banks. We were obliged to 

 turn southerly for a short distance, and found what 

 we had fancied was a river to be only a small creek. 

 We crossed it about twelve or foiu-teen miles from 

 the sea, but the water was brackish. The trees on 

 the sandy ground were broad-leafed melaleucas, 

 GrevUleas, and nondas, and by the water-holes which 

 we occasionally saw, were stravadiums and drooping 

 melaleucas. I also saw a species of Stravadium 

 with racemes of white flowers, much longer than 

 the others, with leaves ten inches long by four 

 inches broad, and the trees thirty feet high. Keep- 

 ing at a distance from the sea-coast to avoid the 

 salt water creeks, and to obtain good grass for 

 our horses, we halted in the middle of the day, and 

 were visited b}^ a great many natives, coming in aU 

 du'ections, and making a great noise. They ap- 

 peared to have been collecting- nondas, as a great 

 many of their women were carrying large basket- 

 fills away. After the women ^\'ere out of sight 



