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ROM the Southernmot Galapagoe Ile, we tood over again for the main, keeping between the Latitude of 2° South, and the Equator, and had a trong Eaterly current contantly againt us: but it was not o perceptible, as on our paage from the main, although we fell in with everal beds of cream-coloured blubber: we did not, however, ee o many mall fih, birds, or eals; of the latter, we only aw two, and they were not at any coniderable ditance from either ile or main. Porpoies and black fih were continually around us, with a few albacores and bonettas.

The winds were much the ame, as on my paage to the Galapagoes, blowing teadily from between the South and Eatward, after twenty-four hours ail from the iles;