she drew only a foot of water.) NATIVE VILLAGE.
Near the mouth we again landed for half an hour, and found a cluster of three or four dome-shaped huts, large and roomy, of neat construction, covered with sheets of melaleuca bark, and having one, sometimes two entrances.

Some fishing nets, similar to those used at Moreton Bay, were seen.

The men retired into the bush when we landed, nor would they come out to me when I advanced alone towards them, in order to look at the huts.

We anchored for the night under Number 1 of the Barnard Isles.
Megapodii were here very plentiful, and about daylight very noisy, running about in all directions, repeating their loud call of chro-co--chro-co.

Some of the bushes presented a fine show of the scarlet flowers of Disemma coccinea, a kind of passion-flower, before only found at Endeavour River by Sir Joseph Banks, during Cook's first voyage.