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 of fat on the back part of its head. Of turtle, we aw only two, and caught neither of them. But with all this abundance of fih, it is a matter of ome difficulty to obtain them, from the number and ize of the harks, who very frequently eized the whole of our prey, before we could draw them out of the water. Of quadrupeds, there were none viible to us: but of inects and reptiles, there were great numbers—uch as piders, flies, muquitoes, gras-hoppers, crickets, and butterflies; with corpions, lizards, and nakes. But the dearth of freh water is the mot uncomfortable and dicouraging circumtance belonging to this iland, though I am very much dipoed to believe that an iland of this extent, and whoe ummit is continually covered with clouds, mut have running treams on it: at the ame time, the large flights of teal which are frequently een coming from the interior parts of the iland, trengthened my conjecture that it contains lakes pools, or prings, though it was not our good fortune to dicover them.

The eaons of the year being conidered, I think the afet anchorage from June to December is, between the South and South Wet points, oppoite to two white coral beeches, which are the firt two in ucceion from the South point of the iland towards the Wet. It is