MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 173 



" May -ij^th. Rounded C. Spartivento about 2 p.m. 

 Beautiful coast. Wind ahead, so we ran in and anchored 

 behind Isola Rossa, in the Bay of Teulada, where we 

 found a Neapolitan brigantine, full of passengers, bound 

 to Boria and Algiers. The captain thereof asked me to 

 go fishing with him ; I declined. He brought us off a 

 few small rock fish, and I gave him a bottle of Monica- 

 Sauterian wine from Old Cara. The Isola is a rocky 

 Island overgrown with scrub. 



" Made out on the Isola Rossa a great number of 

 rock doves, shags, Alpine swifts, common swifts, a 

 peregrine falcon, one or two Eleonora falcons, some 

 kestrels, and herring gulls," 



Vacca 



" May 25//;. Beautiful morning. Went away to 

 the Isola Rossa between 5 and 6 a.m. Found and shot 

 a good many birds. The yacht got under way about 

 7.30, and stood off and on for us. Went aboard about 

 9 a.m., and stood away with light head breezes round 

 Cape Teulada. Bore away for the island of Vacca, 

 about two or three miles from Cape Sperone. The 

 yacht lay to and we went off to the island, a high 

 black precipitous mass of apparently volcanic rock. 

 Found a place where the two men could scramble ashore 

 on the east side. Great ornithological success. On 

 board again about 7 p.m. ; head wind, so ran about 

 three miles up the Bay of Palmas towards San Antioco, 



