Island <of
Amsterdam,
so touch, to a man of Ms decent maimers and1 disposition,
to collèct, While he was away from the hut where they
were kept/sdtoe persons’from the ships, suspecte’d to be
above 'ihê rank of common seamen. brought spirituous
Èquors -ashore, which was a temptation too strong for
th^bther seal-catchers to resist. They first began -to
bargain upon reasonable'conditions,- except offering a
property not ihêiröwh but when ohce they hadtisted
the rum in sufficient quantity to affeet thefrunderstandv
ihgj‘5they 'lessened the heap* of- skins with a profusion
w h ich‘knew no hounds; and Perron had to regret his
ghod nature to strangers, which gave the opportunity of
thus injutiMif hito, and to lament the arrival o f English
ships at the place'è f 'his abode: Sir Erasmus Gower,
who felt much indignation when he heard th e story,
ordered a general search to be made for the skins: thus
unwarrantably acquired. ’Some were found ; and it was
intended to leave them at Canton; for the Lion was
aiMady’under sail from Amsterdam before he :coiuld
know the fact. How subsequent events rendered this
detertoination Vain, will hereafter •- B& related to the
reader.-
St. Paul’s, or the island lying in sight, and to the
northward of Amsterdam, differed in appearance mate*
rially from the latter. It presented no very high land,
or ahy rising in a conic form. It was overspread with
shrubs and trees of a middling size; It was- said to
abound with'ifesh' bto-#pir ncr^gbocl5 arfchcfiage * -inland of
. , H H 1 , i • i Ans|eidain. riear-dt, pPafiy pla’cc^w oa'sy-landing'. fhe ships tost
sight*of both thblfe islands,, on, thg e^^mng of thesecond*
. In $]jS§)£©liQ volum'e of^phtes, ,this.yrojl5!
will be found antf plafjYo§^^^Kflp^|-b|’Amsterdam,
and of the-> gle'at/dratei;• on the! eastern side of it.