It is quite low, being composed of heaped-up fragments of shells and coral, overrun with a suffruticose Sida, and stunted bushes of Clerodendrum and Premna, with a glossy-leaved euphorbiaceous plant occasionally forming small thickets.

Seafowl and waders were very numerous, but the breeding season was over.

Landrail existed in such great numbers that upwards of fifty were shot.
I cannot see the propriety of considering the sandbank, marked Number 7, as a member of the Claremont group, as, at high-water, it is a mere strip of sand 200 yards in length, with a few plants of Salsola on the highest part.
NIGHT ISLAND.
On September 8th, we anchored to the westward of the north end of Night Island, a mile off shore, and remained there for the two succeeding days.
This island is two miles in length, and half a mile in breadth, surrounded by a narrow reef of dead coral and mud.

With the exception of a very narrow portion fronted by a sandy beach, the place is densely covered with mangroves.

A sandy portion, of about five acres in extent, is thickly covered with bushes and small trees, of which the most conspicuous is a Bombax or cotton-tree, 20 to 30 feet in height, with leafless horizontal branches bearing both flowers and fruit.