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] enter the foret in a outh direction. We afterwards arrived at a fine andy beach, extending about 1000 toies in the ame direction.

A beautiful pecies of erigeron, the woody tem of which is covered with very mall bulbous leaves, grew in this dry ground. Though there was very little wind, the waves broke with violence over a great extent of the beach. We regularly oberved that, after three ucceive waves, one much larger than the ret followed and broke higher upon the beach, o as to oblige us to keep further off from the hore.

On a mall riing ground of the coat, I found the pecies of the bankia, denominated by Gærtner bankia gibboa. Whilt we were journeying through the foret, at a mall ditance from the hore, one of our company oberved a young avage, who was running away affrighted by a hot which had been fired at a bird. As oon as we were informed of it, we all ran in puruit of him, being very deirous of having an interview with ome of the natives. But all our earch was in vain; for the young avage had diappeared by ruhing into the thicket of the foret at the rik of tearing his kin; for he was tark naked. We found one of the fences againt the ea-winds at the place where he had been firt een.

The hope of meeting with ome of the avages determined