of fat on the back part of its head. Of turtle, we ſaw only two, and caught neither of them. But with all this abundance of fiſh, it is a matter of ſome difficulty to obtain them, from the number and ſize of the ſharks, who very frequently ſeized the whole of our prey, before we could draw them out of the water. Of quadrupeds, there were none viſible to us: but of inſects and reptiles, there were great numbers—ſuch as ſpiders, flies, muſquitoes, graſs-hoppers, crickets, and butterflies; with ſcorpions, lizards, and ſnakes. But the dearth of freſh water is the moſt uncomfortable and diſcouraging circumſtance belonging to this iſland, though I am very much diſpoſed to believe that an iſland of this extent, and whoſe ſummit is continually covered with clouds, muſt have running ſtreams on it: at the ſame time, the large flights of teal which are frequently ſeen coming from the interior parts of the iſland, ſtrengthened my conjecture that it contains lakes pools, or ſprings, though it was not our good fortune to diſcover them.
The ſeaſons of the year being conſidered, I think the ſafeſt anchorage from June to December is, between the South and South Weſt points, oppoſite to two white coral beeches, which are the firſt two in ſucceſſion from the South point of the iſland towards the Weſt. It is