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] the thicket part of the woods. Their tracks generally terminate at ome rivulet.

Having exhauted our tock of proviions, we were compelled to endeavour to reach the hips before night. We wandered about the woods a long time before we arrived at the north-eat extremity of the harbour, from whence we had a ditant view of our veels. It was not without great difficulty that we reached the place where they rode at anchor, as we had to pas through many very rugged grounds.

12th. The whole day was hardly ufficient for me to prepare and decribe what I had collected on our lat excurion.

Having left ome of my pecimens which could not be preerved without being daily attended to, in the care of one of the ervants, who remained on board during my abence; I had the atisfaction to find them in good condition.

Citizen Riche found ome human bones amongt the ahes of a fire made by the natives. Several bones of the pelvis he dicovered by their form to have been part of the keleton of a young woman: ome of them were till covered with pieces of broiled fleh. I am, however, crupulous of ranking the natives of this country with the cannibals: I rather uppoe that they have the cutom of burning the bodies of their dead; as