194 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPIC AL 
1819. parts of the bay, near the edge of the beach. The 
JunTi 6 . inhabitants were not however far off, for the 
tracks of human feet, as well as those of a dog 
were noticed very recently imprinted on the 
gravelly bed of the fresh-water stream ; and we 
were probably watched by them in all our pro- 
ceedings. Near the extremity of the Cape 
some bamboo was picked up, and also a fresh 
green cocoa-nut, that appeared to have been 
lately tapped for the milk. Heaps of pumice- 
stone were also noticed upon the beach , not any 
of this production, however, had been met with 
floating. 
Hitherto, no cocoa-nut trees have been found 
on this continent ; although so great a portion of 
it is within the tropic, and its north-east coast so 
near to islands on which this fruit is abundant. 
Captain Cook imagined that the husk of one, 
which his second Lieutenant, Mr. Gore, picked 
up at Endeavour River, and which was covered 
with bernacles, came from the Terra del Espiritu 
Santo of Quiros ;* but, from the prevailing 
winds, it would appear more likely to have been 
drifted from New Caledonia, which island at that 
time was unknown to him ; the fresh appearance 
of the cocoa-nut seen by us renders, however, 
even this conclusion doubtful ; Captain Flinders 
* Hawkrsworth, vol, iii. p. 164. 
