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 a parallel with the water's edge. We did not land on either of them. In this expedition we aw great numbers of penguins, and three or four hundred eals. There were alo mall birds, with a red breat, uch as I have een at the New Hebrides; and others reembling the Java parrow, in hape and ize, but of a black plumage; the male was the darket, and had a very delightful note. At every place where we landed on the Wetern ide, we might have walked for miles, through long gras and beneath groves of trees. It only wanted a tream to compoe a very charming landcape. This ile appears to have been a favourite reort of the Buccaneers, as we not only found eats, which had been made by them of earth and tone, but a coniderable number of broken jars cattered about, and ome entirely whole, in which the Peruvian wine and liquors of that country are preerved. We alo found ome old daggers, nails and other implements. This place is, in every repect, calculated for refrehment or relief for crews after a long and tedious voyage, as it abounds with wood, and good anchorage, for any number of hips, and heltered from all winds by Albemarle Ile. The watering-place of the Buccaneers was entirely dried up, and there was only found a mall rivulet between two hills running into the ea; the Northernmot of the hill forms the South point of Freh