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 All the way to the Latitude of Saint Felix and Saint Ambroe, and alo running down the Longitude to thoe iles, we never aw a ingle permaceti whale, except a flinched one, the day before we quitted ight of the main; but there were a great number of eals along the whole coat.

On the twentieth day of May, at day-light, we aw one of the Iles of Saint Felix and Saint Ambroe; and oon after the other. By four in the afternoon, we were within ix or even miles of the Eaternmot; when, accompanied by the whaling mater, I made an attempt to land, as well as to find an anchoring ground. The ile proved to be a rugged, perpendicular, barren rock, ixty or eventy fathoms in height; and, in its craggy breaks and helvings, eals had found a reting place. There was, indeed, an appearance of verdure on its ummit, which induced me to conjecture, that it is, by ome means or other, upplied with moiture. But night coming on, and it beginning to niffle and rain, with the wind far to the North, and no place to helter the boat, or where we could land, on the North ide, we returned on board. It was an equally night, with howers of rain; and, on the twenty-firt, at day-light, as much wind blew from Wet North Wet, as would admit of double reefed top-ails, with very heavy howers, which continued the whole of the forenoon; o that we were obliged to pas to the Southward of the Eaternmot ile, which preents the ame inhopitable apect as that of the North ide. At noon, the rain ceaed, and the wind became variable with cloudy