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children, whose curiosity prompted them to follow 
us; and allotting a madrepore to each they bore 
them cheerfully, but in amazement, to the oi>posite 
shore, and were rewarded with small coin. One 
pretty little girl was detected, after the arrival of 
the others, fraudulently appropriating a madrepore, 
which she pretended she had brought ah the way, 
and therefore claimed the usual award. On being 
found out she ran away, discomfited and ashamed, 
amid the jeers and laughter of her boy-companions. 
When the madrepores were brought on board, I 
had them broken up with a hammer, when the 
shells feU out, and were carefully collected ; in this 
manner I obtained specimens of Jouannetia globosa, 
Parapholas quadrizonalis, and Leptoconchus, red- 
brown boring Lithophagi, gaping Gastrochmnm, 
besides parasitic Arks and other nestling bivalves. 
The vast rolling waves of the Pacific washed the 
strand, where children and aged crones were seen 
gathering bits of driftwood and charcoal, and where 
village curs were equally intent on cast-up offal and 
the remains of shipwrecked cuttles. Might I not 
