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 in that tate into the ea, was thrown into his head, and deprived him of his ight for everal days; I was very apprehenive, that he would never recover it, but by placing him in warm water, frequently, in the coure of the day, the rah returned to his thighs and legs, and by degrees, his ight was retored.

The hope of more favorable weather, and of better ucces, in our commercial objects, induced me to remain cruiing here ixteen days; during which period, we aw whales, three different times, and killed three of them. One was a mall one, meauring 15 feet, which we hoited on board, and of which I made a drawing; its heart was cooked in a ea-pye, and afforded an excellent meal. Thee whales were very poor, having carce blubber enough, to float them on the urface of the water, and when kinned, their carcaes unk like a tone. They yielded altogether but fifteen barrels of oil.

The weather remained unpleaant, there being carcely any interval for the better, for twenty hours, with a trong Southerly current of half a mile an hour. The whole crew had been, more or les, affected by the yellow fever, from which horrid diorder; I was, however, o fortunate, as to recover them, by