Of the Plants -and Animals. 
the tree that bore them, whieh perhaps no European botanift 
ever faw ; but to their great mortification they could not find 
it : To that, after fpending much time, and cutting down four 
or five trees, they returned quite exhaufted with fatigue to the 
fliip. 
On the 25th, having made an excursion up the river, I 
found a canoe belonging to our friends the Indians, whom 
we had not feen fince the affair of the turtle ; they had left it 
tied to fome mangroves, about a mile diftant from the fliip, 
and I could fee by their fires that they were retired at lead fix 
miles diredlly inland. 
As Mr. Banks was agaip gleaning the country for his natu- 
ral hiilory on the 26th, he had the good fortune to take an ani- 
mal of the Opojfum tribe : it was a female, and with it he took 
two young ones : it was found much to reiemble the remarkable 
animal of the kind, which Monf. de Buffon has defcribed in 
his natural hiilory by the name of Phalanger, but it was not 
the fame. Monf. Buffon fuppofes this tribe to be peculiar to 
America, but in this he is certainly millaken ; and probably, 
as Pallas has obferved in his Zoology, the Phalanger itfelf is 
a native of the Ea!l Indies, as the animal which was caught by 
Mr. Banks refembled in the extraordinary conformation of the 
feet, in which it differs from animals of every other tribe. 
On the 27th, Mr. Gore fhot a Kangurcc, which, with the 
Ikin, entrails, and head, weighed eighty-four pounds. Upon 
examination, however, we found that this animal was not at 
its full growth, the innermoil grinders not being yet formed. 
We dreffed it for dinner the next day ; but to our great difap- 
pointment, we found it had a much worfe flavour than that' 
we had eaten before. 
The wind continued in the fame quarter, and with the fame 
violence, till five o’clock in the morning of the 29th. when it 
fell calm ; foon after a light breeze fprang up from the land, 
and it being about two hours ebb, I fent a boat to fee what wa- 
ter was upon the bar ; in the mean time we got the anchor up, 
and made all ready to put to fea. But when the boat came 
back, the offlcer| reported that there was only thirteen feet 
water upon the bar, which was fix inches lefs than the fhip 
drew. We were therefore obliged to come to, and the fea 
breeze fetting in again about eight o’clock, we gave up all 
hope oUfailing that day. 
We had frefh gales at S. E. with hazy ’weather and rain,' 
till two in the morning of the 3 1 ft, when the weather being 
fomethmg more moderate, I had thoughts of trying to warp 
the ihip out of the harbour ; but upon going out myfelf firft 
in the boat, I found it ftill blow too frefh for the attempt. 
During all this time the pinnace and yawl continued to ply tha 
net and hook with tolerable fuccefs ; fometimes taking a 
. K 3 turtle. 
