VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
many parts we met with very large trees, the trunks of 
which and branches were evidently rent, and demolifhed 
by lightning. Clofe by the burning tree we faw three 
kangaroos. Though by this time very much fatigued, 
we proceeded about two miles farther on, in hopes of finding 
fome good water, but without effed:; and about half pad 
four o'clock we took up our quarters near a ftagnant pool. 
The ground was fo very dry and parched, that it was with 
fome difficulty we could drive either our tent pegs or poles 
into it. The country about this fpot was much clearer of 
underwood than that which we had pafled during the day. 
The trees around us were immenfely large, and the tops of 
them filled with loraquets and paroquets of exquifite 
beauty, which chattered to fuch a degree, that we could 
fcarcely hear each other fpeak. We fired feveral times at 
them, but the trees were fo very high that we killed but 
few. 
26th. We ftill directed our courfe weftward, and pafied 
another tree on fire ; and others which were hollow, and 
perforated by a fmall hole at the bottom, in which the 
natives feemed to have fnared fome animal. It was 
certainly done by the natives, as the trees where thefe 
holes 
