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 two cables length from the hore, mut pas weeks without any communication with it. The plenty which regaled Mr. Byron, and which might have upported not only armies, but armies of Patagons, was no longer to be found. The geee were too wie to tay when men violated their haunts, and Mr. Macbride’s crew could only now and then kill a gooe when the weather would permit. All the quadrupeds which he met there were foxes, uppoed by him to have been brought upon the ice; but of ueles animals, uch as ea lions and penguins, which he calls vermin, the number was incredible. He allows, however, that thoe who touch at thee ilands may find geee and nipes, and in the ummer months, wild cellery and forrel.

token was een by either, of any ettlement ever made upon this iland, and Mr. Macbride thought himelf o ecure from hotile diturbance, that when he erected