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 '2 SURVEY O! THE INTERTROPICAL 180. The other huts were made somewhat of a si- oct. s. milar construction, as they are represented in the wood-cut, but all differed in shape: it did not appear that they had been very recently inha- bited, for the greater part of the thatch was burnt. The natives did not make their appearance during our stay; and, although an interview with them would have afforded us both amuse- ment and information, yet their absence was perhaps more desirable, since all our provisions and stores were on shore; and their intimacy would probably have produced a quarrel, wch, for our own sakes as well as for the safety of future visitors, was best avoided. The fire-places near them were strewed with the nuts of the sago palm, the fruit of which ap- pears to be generally eaten by the natives of the north and north-west coasts. 0. On the 9th we left Careening Bay; and, passing out between Cape Brewster and the Coronation Islands, entered a spacious sound, which was called Brunswick Bay, in honour of that illus. trious house. From Cape Brewster the land tended for six miles to Cape Wellington, round which there appeared to be a communication -. with the water seen over the hills of Careening Bay. In front of the bay a cluster of islands extends

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