surrounded with canoes.  The natives came on board and murdered the steward; Forbes and the other boy got up the rigging, and in consequence of their expertness the natives were unable to catch them, but at last made signs for them to come down, and they would not hurt them.  They availed themselves of the only chance left them of saving their lives, and surrendered.  They were immediately bound, and taken on shore; a rope was fastened to the ship, her cable slipped, and the natives hauled her ashore, where she soon became a wreck.  Forbes states that several Dutchmen had called at the island, to whom he appealed for rescue, but they all refused to interfere; and latterly, whenever any vessel hove in sight, he was always bound hand and foot, so that he should have no chance of escape.  Both himself and the other boy had been made slaves to the tribes; his companion died about three years since.  The poor fellow is still in a very bad state of health; the sinews of his legs are very much contracted, and he has a great number of ulcers all over his legs and body.  Fortunately for Forbes, Mr. Watson had a surgeon on board the Essington, who immediately put him under a course of medicine, which, without doubt, saved his life; for, from the emaciated state in which he was received on board, it was impossible, without medical aid, that he could have survived much longer.  Too much Fraise cannot be awarded to Mr. Watson for his exertions in rescuing this lad.

APPENDIX.

LIST OF BIRDS,

COLLECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S.  BEAGLE,

DURING THE YEARS 1837 TO 1843.

IchthyiAetus leucogaster. 
Ieracidea berigora. 
Astur approximans, Vig. and Horsf. 
Collocalia arborea. 
Podargus humeralis, Vig. and Horsf. 
Podargus phalaenoides, Gould. 
Eurostopodus guttatus. 
Merops ornatus, Lath. 
Dacelo Leachii. 
Dacelo cervina, Gould. 
Halcyon macleayii, Jard. and Selb. 
Alcyone azurea. 
Dicrurus bracteatus, Gould. 
Colluricincla cinerea, Gould. 
Pachycephala gutturalis. 
Pachycephala melanura, Gould. 
Pachycephala pectoralis, Vig. and Horsf. 
Pachycephala lanoides, Gould. 
Artamus sordidus. 
Cracticus destructor. 
Cracticus argenteus. 
Grallina Australis. 
Graucalus melanops. 
Graucalus albiventris. 
Pitta Iris, Gould. 
Oriolus viridis. 
Cinclosoma punctatum, Vig. and Horsf. 
Malurus Lamberti, Vig. and Horsf. 
Malurus melanocephalus, Vig. and Horsf. 
Malurus splendens. 
Malurus brownii, Vig. and Horsf. 
Stipiturus malachurus. 
Cysticola exilis ? 
Ephthianura albifrons. 
Sericornis frontalis. 
Anthus pallescens. 
Cincloramphus cruralis. 
Mirafra ? ——­ ? 
Petroica multicolor. 
Zosterops luteus. 
Pardalotus punctatus. 
Pardalotus uropygialis, Gould. 
Dicaeum hirundinaceum. 
Amadina Lathami. 
Amadina gouldiae, Gould.