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them were killed in a night, they would not be miffed in th
morning: we were obliged to k ill great numbers o f them,
as, when we walked the Ihore, they were continually running
againft us, making at the fame time a moft horrible
noife. Thefe animals yield excellent train oil, and their
hearts and plucks are very good eating, being in tafte fome-
thing like thofe o f a hog, and their Ikins are covered with
the fineft fur I ever faw of the kind. There are many birds
here, and among others fome very large hawks. Of the
pintado birds, our people, as I have before obferved, caught
no lefs than feven hundred in one night. We had not much
opportunity to examine the place for vegetable productions,
but we faw feveral leaves of the mountain cabbage, which
is a proof that the tree grows here.
€ H A P.
The PaJJdge from Mafafuero to £%ueen Charlottes I {lands ;
feveral Miftakes correEled concerning Davis's Land, and
an Account o f fome fmall Ifands, fuppofed to be the fame
that were feen by §}uiros.
WHÈN we took our departure from Mafafuero, we had
a great fea from the N. W. with a fwell o f long
billows from the fouthward, and the wind, which was from
the S. W. to the W. N. W. obliged me to ftand to the northward,
in hope o f getting the fouth eaft trade-wind, for the
fhip was fo dull a failer, that there was no making her go
without a ftrong wind in her favour. Having thus run farther
to the northward than at firft I intended, and finding
myfelf not far from the parallel of latitude which has been
afligned to two iflands called Saint Ambrofe, and Saint Felix
or Saint Paul, I thought I Ihould perform an acceptable fer-
vice by examining i f they were fit for Ihipping to refrefli at,
efpecially as the Spaniards having fortified Juan Fernandes,
they might be found convenient for Great Britain, if file
fhould hereafter be engaged in a Spanifli war. Thefe iflands
are laid down in Green’s charts, which were publifhed in the
year 1753, from latitude 36° 20', to 270 S. and from i 0-'- to
3°.iW. of Mafafuero; I therefore hauled up with a defign to
keep in that latitude, but foon afterwards confulting Robert-
fon’s Elements o f Navigation, I found the ifland o f Saint
Ambrofe there laid down in latitude 25° 30'S., and 82° 20'
longitude weft o f London, and fuppofing that iflands o f fo
Von. I. X x finall