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156 repect to the quality of our ea-bicuit. But we dicovered, when it was too late, that a part of it had already made a voyage before; for, at the end of five months after our departure from Bret, it warmed with prodigious numbers of thoe maggots, that are afterwards changed into the pecies of fly known by the name of dermetes paniceus. Thee inects oon became very troubleome to us: in the night-time they burnt themelves at our lamps in uch numbers, as very frequently to extinguih them. From the bicuits the maggots oon pread themelves throughout all the ret of our proviions, and it lated a coniderable time before we could conquer the digut which it at firt gave us, when we aw them warming in all our food.

2d. The impetuoity and frequency of the qualls obliged us to make a great many tacks. They once forgot to hiver the main top-ail before they brailed it up, and it was intantly torn in pieces.

On the 4th of April, being in 41° S. lat. 92° E. lon. we aw a great number of birds; amongt others, gulls and the larus marinus, which eldom fly far from the land. Probably we were near to ome rock or iland. Though we had made a very good run, we till aw the ame kinds of birds on