which ſeem to approach him to the claſs of the ruminant quadrupeds. His teſticles were on the outſide of the abdomen. Theſe animals probably find a part of their food on the ſea-coaſt, as we frequently obſerved the prints of their feet in the ſand.
25th. Having left ſome of my plants in the hands of the painter, that he might take a drawing of them, I followed the windings of the coaſt in a ſouth-eaſt direction. The large ſlippery pebbles which covered the ſtrand were a great impediment to us in walking.
We found on the ſkirts of the foreſt a fence conſtructed by the natives againſt the winds from the bay. It conſiſted of ſtripes of the bark of the eucalyptus reſinifera, interwoven between ſtakes fixed perpendicularly into the ground, forming an arch, of about a third of the circumference of a circle, nine feet in length and three in height, with its convex ſide turned toward the bay. A ſemicircular elevation covered with cinders, and heaped round with ſhells, pointed out the place where the natives dreſſed their victuals. Such a fence muſt be of great ſervice to them to prevent their fires being extinguiſhed, when the wind blows with violence from the ſea.
Having croſſed a promontory of the coaſt, we walked with difficulty over the looſe ſands, which
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