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JOURNEY FROM CAPE TRIO 



which appears to be akin to the boimetia palustris^ with large white 

 flowers; a beautiful species of evolvulus* s a small, yellow-flowering 

 cassia ; a pretty flowered creeping asclepiadea ( echites with a hand- 

 some white and rose-coloured blossom ; a new andromeda, with deep 

 red flowers ; and the two species of the same genus already found 

 at Cape Frio ; with many others. 



Towards evening our caravan reached the sea-beach, where the 

 ruins of an old chapel, in a dreary, desert, and sandy country, were 

 in perfect harmony with the roaring and dashing of the furiously 

 agitated billows. Low stunted bushes extended towards the wood, 

 and attested the violence of the winds that prevail here. On a small 

 tongue of land between the agitated sea and a lagoa of great length, 

 we continued our journey till after dark, when we reached a solitary 

 shepherd's house, called Paulisfa, where we found nothing to satisfy 

 our hunger but a little mandiocca flour, and some maize for our 

 beasts. We had fortunately provided ourselves at Baretto with some 

 dry salt meat and beans. As the house was tolerably spacious, we 

 remained there the following day, to rest from our fatigues. 



Flocks of the Brazilian oyster-eater (hoematopus) were running 

 about on the sea-coast; and we shot many of them. In the neigh- 

 bouring forests, in which the cocoa-palm abounds, we shot several 

 very small owls of the kind which the natives call cabiire-f-, but which 

 must not be confounded with that called by Marcgraf by the same 

 name. The Palmetto palm, which is very common here, was felled 

 by us for the sake of its pith. This tree is one of the most elegant 



* A new species, not described either by Persoon, Willdenow, Ruiz, or Pavon. 



t Strix ferruginea; 6 inches 7 lines in length; of a dirty red colour, with several light 

 yellow spots on the shoulders, and large wing feathers ; a large white spot on the lower part 

 of the throat ; tail dirty red without spots ; the belly of a bright reddish yellow, mixed with 

 white and brown longitudinal stripes ; iris a deep yellow. This bird, which has no ear, 

 seems to resemble the caburt of Azara. 



