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( 122 ), whose oil is more valuable than that of any other amphibious animal; and their tongues, when salted, affords no despicable resource in a scarcity of provisions.

From Tristan d'Acunha a short run of eleven days brought us off the Cape of Good Hope, which we were in hope of passing with a continuance of our favourable wind; in this, however, we were disappointed, as it suddenly veered to the S.E, and obliged us to run to the north-