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era", where we could scarcely stand on our feet, owing to the 
extreme slipperiness of the clayey rocks, we found that the 
tide had not sufficiently receded to allow of our passing on¬ 
wards without hazard. As, however, the evening was draw¬ 
ing on, and we had still some distance to travel ere we should 
meet with either food or shelter, we were necessitated to make 
the attempt. Scrambling, in some places, on all-fours like a 
cat, and upborne in others by my faithful natives, I rounded 
this cape through the breakers (passing under a natural arch¬ 
way in the rocky cliff), and got in safety to the other side. 
Continuing my march, I collected several species of Algce, 
which were new to me. At sunset we arrived, wet, cold, and 
hungry, at Pakarae, a small village containing about twelve 
persons; who, according to their custom, heartily welcomed 
us, although, as we subsequently found, they had not a scrap 
of food to give us! The old chief kindly pulled up three 
stakes from the fence of his little city (for trees there were 
none in this neighbourhood), as tent-poles for my tent; and 
presented me with a dead cray-ffsh, which 1 was happy 
enough to obtain and divide among six of my party (in¬ 
cluding myself) as a substitute for supper. The next morn¬ 
ing I started early (having procured a basket of sweet pota¬ 
toes for breakfast, which were fetched during the night from 
some distance), travelling, as yesterday, by the seaside. At 
2 p.m. my party halted to roast a few potatoes for our 
dinner, which afforded me an opportunity of straying about 
a little; in doing so, I was fortunate enough to find Eu¬ 
phrasia cuneata in flower, which was abundant hereabouts 
on the low clayey cliff’s; and three plants of Compositacece 
which were new to me; one of which, a curious little one- 
flowered plant, was covered with a thick viscid substance, 
which exuded from its glandular pores. Here, also, procum¬ 
bent on the sand, I found a small plant, in habit and general 
appearance somewhat resembling Tetragonia expansa , but 
differing widely in its fruit, its berries being large, succulent, 
pimpled, and dewy, and filled with a carmine-coloiucd juice. 
