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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821 . north extremity of the Cape, to procure some 
June 18. bearings; after which we strolled about, and 
found a temporary stream of water falling into 
the sea. In walking past a grove of pandunus 
trees, which grew near the water, we disturbed 
a prodigious quantity of bronze-winged butter- 
flies, reminding us, in point of number, of the 
euplcea hamata, at Cape Cleveland in 1819. It 
proved to be a variety of the castnia orontes (La- 
treille,) of Amboyna and the other Indian Islands. 
Mr. Cunningham took advantage of the Dick’s 
boat going to the bottom of the bay, to cut 
grass: near their landing-place he found some 
natives’ huts ; some of which were of more 
substantial construction than usual, and were 
thatched with palm leaves: inside of one he 
found a fishing rod, and a line, five or six fa- 
thoms long, furnished with a hook made from a 
shell, like the hooks of the South Sea Islanders : 
he also found a small basket, made from the leaf 
of a palm-tree, lying near the remains of their 
fire-places, which were strewed with broken 
exuviae of their shell-fish repasts. 
A canoe twelve feet long, similar to the one 
described at Blomfield’s Rivulet, (vol. i. p. 209,) 
was also seen ; and, like it, was not more than 
nine inches wide at the bilge. A small kan- 
