The proper season of the year for procuring it in full perfection, is after the floods have receded, and the leaves have died away and been burnt off.

It is that species of reed of which the leaves are used by coopers for closing up crevices between the staves of their casks.
June 1 .-- Upon getting up this morning I found myself very stiff and sore from the bruises I had received yesterday, yet I felt thankful that I had escaped so well; had any of my limbs been broken, I should have been in a dreadful position, and in all probability must have perished.

After Wylie had dug up some of the flag-roots for breakfast, and a few to take with us, we proceeded on our journey.

I was anxious to have made a long stage, and if possible, to have reached Thistle Cove by night; but the country we had to pass over was heavy and sandy, and after travelling fifteen miles, the horses became so jaded, that I was obliged to turn in among some sand-drifts near the coast, and halt for the night.

The course we had been steering for the last few days towards Lucky Bay, had gradually brought us close to the coast again, and during a part of our journey this afternoon we were travelling upon the sea-shore.