These are Guilandina bonduc, Tournefortia argentea, Morinda citrifolia, Paritium tiliaceum, Casuarina equisetifolia, and Clerodendrum inerme,* among the trees and shrubs, which were often overgrown with Lygodium microphyllum, and Disemma coccinea.

The only birds seen were the sacred kingfisher, the sulphur-crested cockatoo, and the Australian crow.
The shells on the reef were all Australian likewise, but under some decaying logs, on the beach, I found single species of Auricula, Truncatella, Scarabus, and Melampus.
(*Footnote.

The highest part of the island, measured up to the tops of the trees, is 479 feet.) (**Footnote.

These are all common to Polynesia, the Indian Archipelago, and tropical Australia.) The men we saw today were dark copper coloured, with the exception of the spokesman, whose skin was of a light-brownish yellow hue.

The hair in nearly all was frizzled out into a mop, in some instances of prodigious size; the light-coloured man, however, had his head closely shaved.* The physiognomy varied much; some had a savage, even ferocious aspect.