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are recorded by Mr. Apliu as having been observed on the 

 coast of Uruguay on his voyage out and home. 



II. Narrative of the Journey. 



I LEFT England on the 1st (or^ rather^ early on the morning 

 of the 2nd) September, 1892, and after an unusually long 

 voyage arrived off Montevideo on the 2nd October. Not- 

 withstanding the facts that thirty days had elapsed since we 

 left the cholera-infected (?) river Thames, and that before 

 entering Rio de Janeiro harbour we had obtained, at the cost 

 of many milreis and much endurance of grievous chemical 

 smells, a certificate under the Health Convention supposed 

 then to exist between Brazil, Argentina, and the Banda 

 Oriental, to the effect that we had been duly disinfected at 

 Ilha Grande, which should have given us free pratique at 

 all ports in the Hiver Plate, we were calmly informed at 

 Mores Island that we must do eight days' quarantine. As 

 the only other passenger for Montevideo on board was going 

 on to Buenos Ay res, I should have had (if I had left the ship 

 and gone into the Lazareto on Flores Island), in addition to 

 the ordinary discomforts, a certain amount of solitary con- 

 finement on that desolate rock. So I went on to Buenos 

 Ayres with the ship, where, on account of our perfectly 

 healthy condition, we were allowed to do our quarantine on 

 board in the Roads. Off Montevideo, where we stayed nearly 

 two days, were many Brazilian Cormorants and examples of 

 three species of Gull, viz. the Dominican, Spot-winged, and 

 Grey-capped. There was little in the way of ornithology 

 to interest me while we lay in the River Plate. 



" Tinamu for dinner " appears to be one of the most 

 important entries in my journal during those rather dreary 

 days ! The Captain reported a scarlet bird with black wings 

 (doubtless Fijrocephalus rubineus) on board on the 4th 

 October; several dragon-flies were about the ship at the 

 same time, also moths and swarms of flies and small beetles. 

 The river is still very wide where we lay, about 14 miles 

 below Buenos Ayres. On one side of us Quilraes was seven 

 miles distant, while the opposite coast of Colonia was 



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