So CSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



as their mother, as foon as they have broken 

 the fhell. 



The failors lurk at night on the fhore: and 

 when a tortoife is crept up they turn it upon 

 its back, with hooks (or, if they can, with 

 their hands alone). In the latter cafe, they 

 muft take care of the animal's mouth, for it 

 bites oBf a finger with eafe ; a misfortune 

 which one of our failors experienced this time. 



The tortolfes (Tejludo My das) are principal- 

 ly caught in two well-known bays ; namely, 

 in the EngliJJj-bay, where the taking them is 

 faid to be attended with difficulties,, and in the 

 Crofs bay, on the right hand of which our 

 captain had pitched his tent, on the fide of a 

 mountain. In this mountain were two grot- 

 toes, or natural caves, at a little diflance from 

 each other. In that which was next the more 

 were feveral French and Englijh letters, of lafl 

 year, as advices to new-comers : the upper 

 one is faid to have been the habitation of an 

 Englijh fupercargo, who fome years ago was 

 left here as a pumfhment for a deteftable crime, 

 with fome victuals, and an ax, to kill tortoifes, 

 which he was forced to roaft by the heat of 

 the fun on the mountains.. It is likewife re- 

 lated 



