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bottmr^Vf ” '’P reach the CHAP 
decavpri ! w'* '* “ "’’“''y formed of “■ 
and then p^et ■“>* 
ftee upon the island is the pandanus, though there is 
very common, nearly of the same size, the wood of which 
tiet ^ resemblance to common ash, and possesses the same proper- 
and ns remar e also a species of budleia, which was nearly as large 
:ihiZw; -a has\ 
are to be met with amonl L T"T7, ’ n 8"""^ 
slender plant with a slem 7 7^^.^ I"*' r^nre is likewise a long 
pink flower, of the class and"^ 7 I?' ”j 7™'*®''’ *>oanng a beautiful 
esculent roots and with th ^ exandna monogynia. We saw no 
bore fruit fit to eat’ 
of it on her arriral rte***7r ™ claimed the merit 
lying cWt ™ t ritcaim Island, these two places 
months. To neither of I f 
land in quesZ I , 7** T“‘!’ is the discovery of the 
Essex, an American wh T "^h’ ** f’’® 
loss of their vessel % ^7’ “'nWontally fell in with it after the 
subsistence on thk A seamen, preferring the chance of finding 
across the wide exonn^ ^ ^ risking their lives in an open boat 
were at their own dlhrieft 7l n 7"'“" ‘‘ “‘® ™b 
by an English whaler that h 'h "®'® ®<berwards taken off- 
surviving shipmateT* ‘^’‘® =“ ^“'P™ fre» their 
stall bneJy sate that the Esse.T was in the act of tTliurj 7' h, I 
animals became enraged, and attacked the vessel bv swimm' ^ 
-™a„ e.a.v„„,ea to eraae the rre,“ ‘r 
