22 8 MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



came off- to us in a boat, and said that there was nothing 

 to be procured here except wine ; no fish, no vegetables. 

 There are, they say, some pigeons about the rocks. The 

 wind dropped at night." 



" April iQth. We went away in the cutter after 

 breakfast and cruised along the rocks to the westward as 

 far as the eastern point of the bay of Canipo. Saw rock 

 doves {Columba livia), but not in any great numbers and 

 very wild. I got two, but only by lying up and sending 

 boat to stir them up. Ran across the bay of Campo, 

 where we took boat and went to the westward, but only 

 saw two rock doves, of which we got one. Beautiful 

 distant view of Corsica, with a great deal of snow on the 

 high tops ; Pianosa, low as it is, distinctly visible. We 

 came back and explored the southern point and eastern 

 side of the promontory which separates the bays of Acona 

 and Stella. Saw more rock doves, but they were very 

 wild, and we only managed to bag one more. The 

 rocks of this promontory are of the colours red, green, 

 black and yellow. We came round and took up our 

 anchorage of last night in the bay of Acona." 



(Written later.) " The rocks of this southern side ot 

 Elba present to the unlearned every variety of colour, 

 stratification, and apparently geological formatioiT ; in 

 places they are certainly limestone, in others red and some 

 black conglomerate, with here and there blocks of black 



