There is in the place a small river of fresh water, and room for a few ships to lie in great security.

Near the lagoon grows the true mangrove, such as exists in the West India islands, and the first of the kind that had been yet met with by our navigators.

Among the shoals and sand banks of the coast, they saw many large birds, and some in particular of the same kind which they had seen in Botany Bay.

These they judged to be pelicans, but they were so shy as never to come within reach of a musket.

On the shore was found a species of the bustard, one of which was shot that was equal in size to a turkey, weighing seventeen pounds and a half.