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pearance, nor did the natives at all seem to 
understand for whom we were enquiring. 
As soon as our wood was completed, the brig 
was moved to an anchorage off the watering bay, 
which proved a more convenient place than un- 
der Seal Island, as it was better sheltered and 
nearer to the watering-place. After riding out a 
heavy gale from the westward at single anchor, 
without any accident, and as soon as our water 
was completed, we again anchored for a day 
under Seal Island, but were obliged to make 
two attempts before we succeeded in getting out 
to sea. 
Whilst at the anchorage off Princess Eoyal 
Harbour, I went to Oyster Harbour to procure 
flowering specimens of a tree which had hitherto 
been a subject of much curiosity to botanists : at 
our former visits the season was too far ad- 
vanced; and Mr. Brown was equally unfortu- 
nate. The plant resembles xanthorrhwa, both in 
its trunk and leaves, but bears its flower in a 
very different manner ; for, instead of throwing 
out one long flower scape, it produces eighteen 
or twenty short stalks, each terminated by an 
oval head of flowers. I recollected having seen 
a large grove of these trees growing at a short 
distance from the outer beach on the east side of 
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1822 . 
Nov. 8. 
