wards, and fixing it upon props, made 

 no defpicable habitation. Having thus 

 eftabl ifhed fome fort of fettlement, we 

 had the more leifure to look about us, 

 and to make our refearches with greater 

 accuracy than we had before, after fuch 

 fupplies as the mod defolate coafts 

 are feltlom unfurnifhed with. Accord- 

 ingly we foon provided ourfelves with 

 fome fea-fowl, and found limpets, muf- 

 cles, and other fhell-fifh in tolerable 

 abundance ; but this rummaging of the 

 fliore was now becoming extremely irk- 

 fome to thofe who had any feeling, by 

 the bodies of our drowned people thrown 

 among the rocks, fome of which were 

 hideous fpeftacles, from the mangled 

 condition they were in by the violent 

 furf that drove in upon the coaft. 

 Thefe horrors were overcome by the 

 diftrefles of our people, who were even 

 glad of the occafion of killing the galli- 

 jiazo (the carrion crow of that country) 



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