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 ' l SURVEY 'OF THE INTERTROPICAL north extremity of the Cape, to procure some bearings; after which we strolled about, and found a 'temporary stream of water falling into the ea. In walking past a grove of paulas trees, which grew near the water, we disturbed .a prodigious quantity of bronze-winged butter- .flies, reminding us, in point of number, of the eup/va/umata, at Cape Cleveland in 1819. It proved to be a variety of the castnia wontes (La- treille,) of Amboyna and the other Indian Islands. Mr. Cunningham took advantage of the Dick's boat going to the bottom of the bay, to cut grass: near 'their landing.plaoe he found some natives' huts; some of which were of more substantial construction than usual, and were thatched with palm leaves: inside of one he found a fishing rod, and a line, five or six fa- thoms long, furnished with a hook made from a shell, like the hooks of the South Sea Islanders: he also found a small basket, made from the leaf of apalm-tree, lying near the remains of their fire.places, which were strewed with broken exuvi of their shell-fish repasts. A canoe twelve feet long, similar to the one described at Blomfield's Rivulet, (vol. i.p. 2090 .was also seen; and, like it, was not more than nine inches wide at the bilge. A 'small kan-

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