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 The Iland of Malpelo, can be of no ue, but as a place of rendezvous; it is urrounded, as it were, by a trong current, having much the appearance of breakers, which, etting into the gulf and being accompanied by light winds, with thick and hazy weather, I did not think it deerving of any further attention. We tried the current and found it to et North Eat by Eat, by compas two miles and an half in the hour.

From the Iland Malpelo, we tretched away, to the Wetward for Ile Cocas, which we made on the twenty-fifth at midnight. The whole of the paage thither, we had threatening, qually and howery weather, with inceant and heavy rain, and, at intervals, thunder and lightning: we had a hort, irregular head ea, with winds from South, South Wet, to Wet South Wet. Porpoies accompanied us in great numbers; and as we approached the Ile Cocas, there appeared large flights of boobies, egg-birds, and man of war hawks. We alo aw a fin-back whale, and two grampues, with innumerable bonettas, dolphins, and albacores.

At break of day, the weather was thick and rainy; and, though the land was covered by the fog, we di-