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proach they landed to avoid us, and quickly istq. 
disappeared. The boat was kept in mid-stream. May 12 . 
and we passed by without taking any notice of 
them. Half a mile further on we put ashore on 
the south bank, and took bearings to fix the posi- 
tion of our station and the direction of the next 
reach upwards, which appeared to be about three 
miles long, and half a mile broad. We then re- 
turned to the cutter, and on the 14th Lieutenant 14 
Oxley and Mr. Roe accompanied me in one of 
our boats upon the examination of the river. 
After reaching our former station on the south 
bank, we proceeded up the long reach towards 
Black-man Point, on which a tribe of natives 
were collected: the river is here divided into two 
streams; we followed that which trended to the 
westward, as it appeared to be the most consi- 
derable. At the end of the next reach the river is 
again divided into two branches, and as the 
southernmost was found, upon trial, to be the 
shoalest, the other was followed. On our left 
was a small contracted arm, which probably com- 
municates with the lagoon on Rawdon Island ; 
here we landed to examine the trees which so 
thickly and beautifully cover both banks : several 
sorts of large growth were noticed, among which 
was a tree of the trichilliece , nat. ord. Juss. (tri- 
chillia glandulosa ,) which the colonists have flattered 
with the name of rose- wood, and a ficus oi gigan- 
