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On the ridges of the north-west coast I picked from a little tree 
with tcrnate leaf, a small round black berry, which was of a very 
agreeable taste. 
One species of acacia, a sapindaceous tree, and two species of 
terminalia, yielded a fine supply of edible gum, and the fruit of 
one of the terminalia was tolerably good to eat. 
The native nutmeg of Port Essington (myristica) is of an 
oblong form, and not so large as that cultivated by the Dutch, 
but strongly aromatic. 
We washed out the blossoms of the drooping tea-tree (mela- 
leuca leucodendron) to get at the honey, which they contained in 
great quantity. 
The native marjoram, of which we met three sorts, one 
belonging to the genus “ Anisomeles” R. Br., was used for tea 
and for flavouring our soup. 
On one occasion we found an edible mushroom. This grew in 
the scrubs west of Darling Downs. 
In our endeavours to find substitutes for tea, we were once 
severely punished on using the seeds of a species of acacia, which 
produced violent sickness and bowel complaints in several of 
my companions. I mentioned the blistering qualities of the 
“ Lugula.” Still more remarkable was that of the glutinous juice 
which exuded from the seed-vessels of a species of grevillea along 
the banks of the Macarthur. The pulpy substance which sepa¬ 
rated the seeds of the arborescent cassia had an acidulous taste, 
and was a mild and very effective medicine. 
I used wood ashes in general, but particularly those of the 
little raspberry-jam tree, to make a lye or wash, with which 1 
dressed the wounds of my companions, using the quill of bustards 
or of native companions, as a kind of syringe to inject the fluid, 
where the wound was deep. 
The Animal Kingdom.—Of molluscous animals we observed 
two species of unio (fresh-water muscles), on which the natives 
along the Mackenzie, the Suttor, and the lagoons of the east 
coast of the gulf, seemed principally to live, two species of cyclas, 
three species of limnaea, one of physa, two of melania, one of 
ancylus. Several species of helix, of which one species, almost 
