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On each had stood four of those large statues ; but 

 they were all fallen down from two of them, and also 

 one from the third ; all except one were broken by 

 the fall, or in some measure defaced. Mr. Wales 

 measured this one, and found it to be fifteen feet in 

 length, and six feet broad over the shoulders. Each 

 statue had on its head a large cylindric stone of a 

 red colour, wrought perfectly round. The one they 

 measured, which was not by far the largest, was fifty- 

 two inches high, and sixty-six in diameter. In some, 

 the upper corner of the cylinder was taken off in a 

 sort of concave quarter-round, but in others the 

 cylinder was entire. 



From this place they followed the direction of the 

 coast to the north-east, the man with the flag still 

 leading the way. For about three miles they found the 

 country very barren, and in some places stript of the 

 soil to the bare rock, which seemed to be a poor sort 

 of iron ore. Beyond this they came to the most 

 fertile part of the island they saw, it being inter- 

 spersed with plantations of potatoes, sugar-canes and 

 plantain trees, and these not so much encumbered 

 with stones as those which they had seen before ; 

 but they could find no water except what the natives 

 twice or thrice brought them, which, though brackish 

 and stinking, was rendered acceptable by the ex- 

 tremity of their thirst. They also passed some huts, 

 the owners of which met them with roasted potatoes 

 and sugar- canes, and placing themselves ahead of the 

 foremost of the party, (for they marched in a 

 line in order to have the benefit of the path,) gave 

 one to each man as he passed by. They observed 

 the same method in distributing the water which they 

 brought ; and were particularly careful that the 

 foremost did not drink too much, least none should 

 be left for the hindmost. But at the very time these 

 were relieving the thirsty and hungry, there were 

 not wanting others who endeavoured to steal from 

 them the very things which had been given them. 



