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ter place, and, after some time, having got a fire and 

 broiled some fish, we made a hearty supper, having 

 for sauce a good appetite. This done, we lay down 

 to sleep, having a stony beach for a bed, and the 

 canopy of heaven for a covering. At length the 

 tide permitted us to take off the sportsmen; and 

 with them we embarked, and proceeded for the place 

 where we had left their boat, which we soon reached, 

 having a fresh breeze of wind in our favour, attended 

 with rain. When we came to the creek, which was 

 on the N. W. side of Anchor Isle, we found there an 

 immense number of blue peterels, some on the wing, 

 others in the woods, in holes in the ground, under 

 the roots of trees, and in the crevices of rocks, where 

 there was no getting them, and where we supposed 

 their young were deposited. As not one was to be 

 seen in the day, the old ones were probably, at that 

 time out at sea searching for food, which in the 

 evening they bring to their young. The noise they 

 made was like the croaking of many frogs. They 

 were, I believe, of the broad bill kind, which are 

 not so commonly seen at sea as the others. Here, 

 however, they are in great numbers ; and flying 

 much about in the night, some of our gentlemen at 

 first took them for bats. After restoring the sports- 

 men to their boat, we all proceeded for the ship, 

 which we reached by seven o'clock in the morning, 

 not a little fatigued with our expedition. I now 

 learned that our friends the natives returned to their 

 habitation at night, probably foreseeing that rain was 

 at hand ; which sort of weather continued the whole 

 of this day. 



On the morning of the 15th, the weather having 

 cleared up and become fair, I set out with two boats 

 to continue the survey of the N. W. side of the bay, 

 accompanied by the two Mr. Forsters and several of 

 the officers, whom I detached in one boat to Goose 

 Cove, where we intended to lodge the night, while I 

 proceeded in the other, examining the harbours and 



