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 conjecture, as I did not myelf examine it; nor does it appear that the Buccaneers ever landed upon it.

The Rodondo is an high barren rock, about a quarter of a mile in circumference, and is viible as far as eight or nine leagues, has oundings round it at the ditance of a quarter of a mile thirty fathom. Here our boats caught rock-cod in great abundance. I frequently oberved the whales leave thee iles and go to the Wetward, and in a few days, return with augmented numbers. I have alo een the whales coming, as it were, from the main, and paing along from the dawn of day to night, in one extended line, as if they were in hate to reach the Galipagoes. It is very much to be regretted that thee iles have to this period been o little known but only to the Spaniards.

Though we met with o trong a current, it did not dicourage us, as we found, by keeping between the North point of Narborough Ile, and North point of Albemarle Ile, and not going to the Northward of the latter, that we were able to maintain our ground; and the hope which now poeed us of making a very ucceful voyage, dipered every complaint of bad bread and hort allowance, which were no longer conidered either with regret or impatience.