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procured here were sharks, sting-rays, sea-bream, 

 mullet, mackerel, and some others. 



The inhabitants in this bay are far more numerous 

 than in any other part of the country that we had 

 before visited; it did not appear to us that they were 

 united under one head, and though tlieir towns were 

 fortified, they seemed to live together in perfect 

 amity. 



It is high w^ater in this bay at the full and change 

 of the moon, about eight o'clock, and the tide then 

 rises from six to eight feet perpendicularly. It ap- 

 pears, from such observations as I was able to make 

 of the tides upon the sea-coast, that the flood comes 

 from the southward ; and I have reason to think that 

 there is a current which comes from the westward, 

 and sets along the shore to the S. E. or S. S. Fj, as the 

 land happens to lie. 



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