WANDERINGS 



IN 



NEW SOUTH WALES, 



CHAPTER r. 



Toivn of Fiinclial — The Physalia, or Portuguese man of 

 war — Description of that animal — An experiment — Ef* 

 fects of the PhysaliVs tting— Method of pTeserving the 

 animal— Land in sight — Approach to the Cape Verd 

 Islands — Islands of Mayo and St. Jago — Anchor at Porto 

 Praya — The town — Famine— Novel method of Fishing— 

 Tffl^ikal mm and d«ber {ilaiies<— ¥dQ^ ^ St» l^ttikBfl^ 

 The monkey bread -tree — Springs of water — Severe 

 drought — ^Negro Huts — ^Plantations — ^The gigantic boa- 

 Ms-tm^Mesm 1^ D^ea fe Melo-^The l^c^it weed 

 ^Dftte pa]ti»--X«eave the idmd. 



Ok the 15th of May 1SB% the Mmd <^ I^fto 

 Santo, in Mtiijie W mm(k, Im^tM^ 1& 5' 

 west, was bearing south-west, half-south, at 

 the distance of forty miles from the ship " Bro- 

 thers, ' Captain Towns, bound to New South 

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