2^5 A VOYAGE TO Book Vlll. 



and the dangers of weathering Cape Horn, make 

 for the liarbour of Juan Fernandes, are very careful 

 to secure themselves against the above-mentioned 

 dangers, and therefore sail up to the farthest part of 

 the bay, where they moor with an anchor in the 

 water, and another on the S. W. shore. But even 

 this precaution is not sometimes sufficient to secure 

 them, as appears from the wrecks of tliree ships ; two 

 of which have been long there, but the other of a 

 more recent date. 



The island de Afuera is every where prodigious 

 high land, and the shores so steep and craggy as to 

 afford no convenient landing-place; which, toge- 

 ther with its having no harbour, prevents all ships, 

 whether those of the enemy, or the country, from 

 touching at it. 



The sea, all around the island de Tierra, may be 

 -said to be filled with sea-wolves, of which there 

 are observed to be three principal species ; the first 

 are small, not being above a yard in length, and 

 their hair a dark brown : those of the second are 

 about a toise and a half in length, and of á greyish 

 brown colour : and those of the third aj'e in ge- 

 neral two toises in length, and the hair of a pale 

 ash-colour. The head of these creatures is too 

 small in proportion to th&t rest of their l)ody, and 

 terminates in a snout; which bearing a great re- 

 semblance to that of a wolf, they have acquired 

 the name. The mouth is proportioned to the head ; 

 but the tongue is very thick, and almost round. 

 They have a row of large pointed teeth in each 

 jaw, two thirds of which are in alveoli or sockets; 

 but the others, being the most hard and solid, are 

 without them. This threatening appearance ifi 

 heightened by whiskers like those of cats, or rather 

 t}gers. Their eyes are small ; and their ears, from 

 the root to the extrcjnity, not above six or eight 

 Jines in length, and of a proportional breadth. Their 



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