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 ,0 SURY!.Y O! THE IN?gRTROPICAL .t#..ourselves better acquainted with the pieme. It .. so. is remarkable that as soon' as we passed round the Champagny Isles, hazy weather commencad, and continued wtheut intermission until we were to the westward of Cape Levtque..The French complain of the same thing; and they were so deceived by it that, in their first voyage, they laid down Adele Island as a part of the main, when it is only a sandy island about two or' .three mi!es long. No natives were seen on any of the islands, but there were large smokes on the hor/zon at the back of Cygnet Bay, We were now beginning to feel the effects of this fatigng duty. One-fourth of the people who kept watch were 'ill with bilious or feverish attacks, and we had never been altogether free from sickness since our arrival upon the coast. Mr. Montgomery's wound was, however, happily quite healed, and Mr. P)e had also returned to his duty; but Mr. Cunningham, who had been con, fined to the vessel since the day we arrived in Careening Bay, was still upon the sick list. Our passage up the mtst coast, the fatigues of watering and weeding at Prinoe' Regent's River, and our constant harassing employment during the examination of the coast between Hanover

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