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xxiv  Swarms of Inects in our Ship's Bicuit—Violent Effects of the Surge—The Commander dangerouly wounded—Luminous Points at the Extremity of the Conductors—Large phophorecent Corpucles—In Conequence of an erroneous Obervation taken by Willaumez we enter by Mitake into Tempet Bay intead of Adventure Bay—General Obervations upon the Variations of the Magnetic Needle—Gradual Diminution of the Phophorecency of the Water, proportionate to our Ditance from the Land—Coure of the Currents—We are obliged to heat the Place where our Time-keepers are kept—Anchorage in Port Dentrecateaux

Abode at Port Dentrecateaux—Signs of the Coats being frequented by the Savages—Different Excurions into the interior Part of the Country—Trees of an enormous Height—Excellence of the Soil—Black Swans—Large Trunks of Trees, hollowed by Fire, erve the Natives as Places of Retreat—Kangaroo—Obervations relating to Comparative Anatomy—Places of Shelter againt the Wind contructed by the Natives—Contruction of their Huts—A udden Gut of Wind breaks our Chain—We run aground in the Mud—Meet with a young Savage—Intelligence of a Paage by which one may ail from Tempet into Adventure Bay—Huts of the Natives—Phoca Monachus—The Heart of this amphibious Animal has no Foramen