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killed, cooked, and eaten. The vessel herself appears to have been ran aground 
and burnt to the water’s edge. The history of the unhappy voyage has since been 
embalmed amongst the most stirring events of seafaring life in Australian waters, 
and the charred remains of the ship have been traced with recurring interest as 
they have drifted from time to time about the harbour of Whangaroa, sometimes 
projecting above the surface, sometimes seen a few feet below, and occasionally 
completely lost for months together in the mud. 
A log of this timber was presented by Mr. A. W. Farqualiar to me in 1895, 
when Curator of the Technological Museum, and it seemed none the worse for its 
immersion of eighty-six years. 
Exudation. —The specific gravity of this kino is about 1*416, and the 
percentage of tannin 65*57 (sic.) (Staiger). 
Dr. Joseph Bancroft quotes another analysis by Mr. Staiger of this kino, in 
which he found 54 per cent, of kino-tannic acid, and “ also a kind of gum-arabic, 
but in older samples the amount of kino-tannic acid is greater, and the gum less.” 
I have no particulars of the above kino, so I am unable to say how far Mr. Staiger’s 
analyses and my own are reconcilable. 
A specimen received from the Government Botanist of Queensland (Mr. F. 
M. Bailey) is in smallish tears for the most part, showing firmly adherent wood or 
bark on one side, a clear-looking kino of a dark colour, showing a ruby colour by 
transmitted light. It has evidently been collected for a long time. It is inclined 
to be tough and horny, and is, therefore, rather difficult to powder; fracture, 
bright; colour of powder of a pure burnt-sienna. 
Cold water forms a deep orange-coloured liquid, which thins out to a bright 
orange-brown colour. Colour of residue, Vandyke-brown. 
With alcohol (so as to form a tincture of B.P. tinct., kino strength), the 
supernatant liquor is of a reddish-brown colour, and the granular residue of a 
reddish-brown colour likewise. It contains 39*62 per cent, of kino-tannic acid, 2 
per cent, of insoluble pblobaphenes, and 32*1 per cent, of gum. 
The name Eucalyptus resinifera is often given in old books (and regularly 
copied into later ones) as “ Botany Bay Gum-tree,” because it was imagined that 
the product of this tree first brought Australian kino into notice. Hence the name 
resinifera. 
Size. —From 2 ft. to 4 ft. in diameter, with a height of 100 ft. and more. 
Habitat. —The small and large fruited forms run into each other, but they 
may be separated to some extent. The range of the species has already been dealt 
with, but it may be said that, as far as this State is concerned, it is a tree of the 
North Coast districts. Nevertheless, it occurs sparingly as far south as Conjola, 
near Milton, and northerly as far as Northern Queensland. 
