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For the next two days the weather was awful, blowing and raining incessantly, and 

 with the exception of a Wood-Pigeon, nothing of note was added to the collection. 



At () a.m. on May 1st the gunboat turned nji, punctual almost to a minute, and 

 an hour later we were ou our way to St. Jorge, arriving at Callieta about noon the 

 same day. After thanking Captain Lima for his kindness in coming to our rescue, 

 we landed in the C'nstom house boat whicii had been sent for us. 



Senhor Mannel Augnsto da Cunha, the Bensande agent, had gone to Vellas to 

 meet the Funchal on her return journey, but we were met by his representative and 

 an interj)reter, Jlr. G. M. Rose. Everything had been arranged for our comfort ; 

 an excellent little stone house, situated on the best collecting ground, at an elevation 

 of about 2001) ft., had been secured, and baggage animals were in waiting. 



While we were enjoying a sumptuous lunch at his house at Calheta, Senhor da 



Tin- collectors' cottage ou the tup u£ .-miu Jorge. Many Wooilcock might be 

 shot of an evening from the front door. 



Cnnha returned from Vellas, and after a hearty welcome, to our great delight handed 

 ns our missing mail. The island of San Jorge is about 30 miles long, very 

 narrow, and extremely steep, the sides rising almost jierpendicularly from the sea, 

 until one reaches an elevation of from 1000 to 2000 ft. The top is grassy and 

 undulating, covered with clumps and woods of heath-trees and junipers, etc., and 

 culminating along the backbone in a series of grass-covered craters, the highest of 

 whicli attains an elevation of about 3500 ft. Numbers of fine cattle and sheep are 

 raised on these charming upland parks, where the jiasture is excellent and abundant, 

 and a large amount of cheese is made and exported. No spot we had visited was 

 so pleasant, aud during the ten days we remained on this island the weather was 

 almost continuously tine. After the terribly stony countries we had been accustomed 

 to, the top of San Jorge, with its carpet of springy turf aud moss, and its virgin 

 woods of grand old heath- and juniper-trees, was a delightful change. We worked 

 the island to the north coast, and westwards almost as far as Vellas, which is 

 about eighteen miles from Calheta. Woodcock were very numerous, more so than 



