WHITENS JOURNAL OF A 
the care of Lieutenant Ball, and a marine, fupplying them 
with provifions fufficient to laft them till they reached the 
fhips. His excellency, with the reft of the party, puflied 
on to the weftward, by the water fide, in hopes of finding 
better land, and a more open country. About four o'clock 
in the afternoon we came to a fteep valley, where the flow- 
ing of the tide ceafed, and a frefh- water ftream commenced. 
Here, in the moft defert, wild, and folitary feclufion that 
the imagination can form any idea of, we took up our 
abode for the night ; drefled our provifions, waflied our fliirts 
and ftockings, and turned our inconveaient fituation to the 
beft advantage in our power. Saw this day the Anomalous 
Hornbill, of which a plate is annexed. This bird is fo very 
fingular in its feveral characleriftics, that it can fcarcely be 
faid to which of the prefent known genera to refer it. In 
the bill it feems moft allied to the hornbill^ but the legs are 
thofe of a toucan^ and the tongue is more like that of a crow 
than any other : it muft therefore be left to future ornitho- 
logifts to determine the point, refting here fatisfied with 
jdefcribing its external appearance. 
The fize of the body is not much lefs than that of a crow: 
the bill is very krge, and bent, particularly at the tip of the 
upper 
