104 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
judge from the number of deer’s horns we saw, we 
should be inclined to consider them as being princi- 
pally those of the latter animal. It would appear 
that bears also frequent this land occasionally ; as 
we found two or three of their skulls, and their 
tracks were pretty numerous along the beach. On 
the sand-hillocks along the shore, there were immense 
numbers of small sea-shells of the Venus kind, 
which had unquestionably been carried there by 
animals, for they were considerably beyond the tide- 
mark. i 
From all these circumstances, then, it is very 
evident that this island is frequented occasionally by 
different kinds of animals, although we had not the 
good fortune of seeing any of them, which is not 
a matter of so much surprise, as the weather became 
hazy very soon after we landed, and continued so 
during the whole time we were on shore, so that it 
would be more a chance than any thing else if we fell 
in with any living creature. 
On the top of a hill, or rather of a rising piece of 
ground, about two miles from where we landed, a 
pile of loose stones was erected, close by which a 
quart bottle was left, containing a slip of paper men- 
tioning as usual the ship’s name, and our being off 
this coast on such a day, &c. Whilst the boat was 
ashore they sounded on board in forty fathoms (mud); 
and, by making a boat fast to the deep sea-line at 
the time, it was found that a current or tide set 
to the southward (true) at the rate of half a mile per 
hour. 
Monday, 30th.— The weather being foggy the 
whole of yesterday, and during the greatest part of 
