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men 
‘itiera occurs, Prarigipanni is cultivated, , 
ere. are no wigs upon the islanci, anu no Vigors, 
The absence of tigers, may he a consequence of the absence 
of pigs. 
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Rain came on: in the evening, and . nuch wind with 
it, hiowing all night, and the rain continuing-sulkily until 
morning, 
June 19 th., A result of the wind is a, line 
of leaves of the sea-plants nos -899 and 900 along the 
beach: they have been torn from their anchorages on the 
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coral flat which extends from the shore, and \ here they 
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a ss oci a t e wit. s eawe eds v as no w , 
Fulau Tinggi shows perhaps the sli d test elevation 
so that the village divides the coral bench into two 
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a part which is still submerged by tie tide, and a part 
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behind the village which has got a thin coating of 
soil. 
Betting out at 8.30 I made an attempt to ge t 
further in the direction of yesterday 1 s expedition; but 
there fell a sulky rain all the time. I. climbed almost 
to the very top of the hill imx id lately behind our camp 
and then came down a s teep face to the stream north of 
the camp and along it home. 
An" undoubtedly marked feature 
of the 
forest pa 
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throng! 
i is the gre&t abundance of 
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0rania m? 
■\o rod ados 
and ” 1 
.angkat” . In places there is 
nothing 
else; in 
others 
a 'few big trees are seen 
to rise 
through 
pa1ms • 
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As we approached the crest, 
the hill 
face at 
same time getting steeper, the vegetation took on greater 
varoety. A great big TTncaria rambled high over the trees 
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and there was what seemed to be a Vitis of considerable 
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size. There was also a Convolvulacea which was in flower 
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but the flowers could not he got. 
