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CHAP, months for tranfportation, during which time they Hved 

 xxiii. without any apparent nourilliment whatever, yet ftill re- 

 mained vigorous, and even prone to copulation. 



A^nother kind of land-turtle, called here the arlacacca^ 

 I have often feen; this is lefs in circumference, very flat, 

 of a difagreeable greenifh colour, and nothing like fo 

 good as the former. 



On the 17th we continued our march N. and N. E. in 

 hopes of more difcoveries, but without fuccefs. We this 

 day paffed fome ant-hillocks above fix feet high, and, 

 without exaggeration, above one hundred feet in circum- 

 ference. We alfo faw great quantities of valuable tim- 

 ber, and^ among the reft, the black-cabbage tree, the 

 wood of which is of a deep brown, and is in high eftima- 

 tion among carpenters and joiners. The Jand- hooker 

 tree was like wife fliewn me, which receives its name 

 from the fruit, which being divefted of its feed, is ufed as 

 a fand-box by writers. It is of the fliape of a large onion, 

 with fmall holes in the furface ; the feed is both laxative 

 and emetic, but the juice of the pulp is a fatal poifon. 

 More than this I cannot fay, having had neither the time 

 nor the power of examining it with the accuracy of a 

 profefled botanift. 



On the 1 8th we continued the fame courfe for a few 

 hours longer, when we found a beaten path, which, 

 though circuitous, feemed to be a communication be- 

 tween Gado-Saby and Boofly-Cry. We followed this 

 path, which led us due W. for a few hours, when a poor 



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