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to the fruit of a Cyperaceous plant; together with 
several specimens of Musci, Jungermannioe, and Fungi. 
Crossing the mouth of Horahora creek, in the even¬ 
ing at low water, a small red-coloured fish swam towards 
us, and bit a toe of the native who was carrying me. 1 
immediately got down and captured the little assailant, 
putting him into my specimen bottle. It was a curious 
little scale-less fellow, about three inches in length, 
with a large broad compressed head, eyes distant, red 
and sunk, wide mouth, projecting jaws, numerous small 
and pointed teeth, pectorals very large, ventrals form¬ 
ing somewhat of a reniform and concave disk, and dorsal 
small and near the tail; it may possibly prove to be a 
new species of Cyclopterus, Linn . 
Late at night we arrived at Ngunguru, a village near 
the coast, situate on a river of the same name navigable 
for small vessels. Here, I obtained a few John-dory 
(Zeus, sp.), which the children captured in the shallow 
water at the ebb tide. It appeared to differ but little 
from the common English species. The natives call it, 
Kuparu. 
Leaving Ngunguru the next morning in a boat, the 
sea being very calm and the wind favorable, a voyage 
of six hours brought us to Owae, a small village in 
Wangaruru Bay. Here we landed and remained during 
the sabbath. 
On the high southern headland of Wangururu Bay 
(near which we landed), I discovered a clump of small 
trees, bearing a handsome fruit of the size of a large 
walnut. Each fruit contained three large shining seeds 
somewhat crescent-shaped, and having the front as it 
were scraped away. Its leaves are oblong glabrous and 
much veined, and its young branches lactescent. I 
