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Twenty Years Before the Mast.
and some young ostriches and ostrich eggs. The Patagonians are a fine race of people, unusually tall and well- formed.
PATAGONIAN BEAUTY.
On the 30th of January a strong land-breeze began to blow, which obliged us to get under way and beat out to sea. The weather now began to grow cold, the thermometer ranging from 50° to 45°. Our ship glided through the water like a thing of life. For several days many whales, seals, and porpoises showed themselves on the surface of the water. The porpoises differed from any I had ever seen before, in having a stripe around
