3l6 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



be caught with the hand. A man can gather more 

 in one day than he can make ufe of in a year. 



From Melita, we were wafted by the gale as far 

 as the Illes of Enofis (7), which are fitualed at the 

 fouthern extremity of Sardinia. There the winds 

 became contrary, and obliged us to anchor. Thefc 

 iflands confift of fandy rocks, which produce no- 

 thing J but, by a wonderful interpofition of the 

 providence of the Gods, who, in places the moft 

 unprodu(flive, find the means of fupporting Man 

 in a thoufand different ways; tunnies are given to 

 thefe iflands, as quails are to the rock of Melita. 

 In Spring, the tunnies, which make their way from 

 the Ocean into the Mediterranean, pafs in fuch 

 great quantities, between Sardinia and the Iflands 

 of Enofis, that their inhabitants are occupied, night 

 and day, in fifliing for them, in faking them, and 

 in extraifling their oil. I have feen, upon their 

 Ihores, heaps of the burnt bones of thefe fifhes, 

 which were higher than this houfe. But this gift 

 of Nature does not render the inhabitants affluent. 

 They fi(li for the benefit of the inhabitants of Sar- 

 dinia. Thus, we faw flaves only in the Iflands of 

 Enofis, and tyrants alone at Meiita. 



The wind becoming favourable, we departed, 

 after having prefented the inhabitants with fome 



flips 



