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 We lay here till the eventeenth of February, and got on board forty-three tons of water, with ome fire wood. But of other refrehments we obtained little, though we had parties contantly employed in trying both the water and the land for freh proviions. After all, two or three monkies and a few doves, were all we got from the iland; and its urrounding water afforded us only alligators, crabs, cockles, clams, periwinkles, oyters and a few other hell fih unknown to us. Several deer were een among the thickets on the hore, as well as wolves, and the feet of ome animals, which were uppoed to be tygers, had left their impreion on the ands. But the animals, were all of them o hy, that they kept beyond the reach of our fire-arms, and it was equally difficult to take the turtle which were een in great abundance. That the birds and monkies were quickly alarmed, may be readily accounted for, from the numbers of hawks and large vultures who feed upon them; as in the maws of ome of the latter which we killed, young monkies were found. The wolves and tygers may be uppoed to keep the les offenive quadrupeds in a imilar tate of agitation; and the fih, as well as the turtle, may be haraed into an equal alarm by the alligators, harks, ea-nakes, &c. all of which, particularly the firt of them, eem to warm on and about the urrounding hores.