are said to compose this forest. The river here shows yellow clay or sand banks rising perpendicular some 40 feet or so. At Merimbula where we anchored there are mud volcanoes of small size which throw up bubbles forth as only canal gas. The town as well as the volcanoes is situated some five miles away from the anchorage. Some indeed visit them. 21 At 3 P.M. we reached Prome in a dazzling rain, directly opposite the anchorage is a reef of rocks running parallel with the shore, through which the river draws down the