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Island of Rodriqiie, and both intending to return 

 there. Hence their haste to leave port. 



The next whaler that made her appearance was 

 the barque Columbus, of New Bedford : she, like the 

 Martha, had accomplished nothing humpbacking, 

 but on her passage from New Holland to this port, 

 had captured three hundred and fifty barrels of sperm 

 oil, in the vicinity of the Island of Rodrique. Like 

 us, the Columbus came in for provisions, and to give 

 her crew liberty. Her crew comprised, for the most 

 part, men who had been shipped in Hobartown ; 

 and they had scarcely set foot ashore when they 

 were squabbling. 



Soon after the Columbus's arrival, the barque Me- 

 chanic, of Newport, came in. She was seventeen 

 days from Anglers, and, although there was no sick- 

 ness on board, was compelled, by a law of the port, 

 to go into quarantine until the expiration of twenty- 

 one days from the time of her leaving Anglers, that 

 being the time set by the law. After performing the 

 quarantine she was hauled into the inner harbor to 

 undergo repairs. 



And now, for the time being, we have done with 

 American whalers, and come to one sailing under the 

 flag of England — the brig Elizabeth and Jane, of Ho- 

 bartown. She was fitted out as a tender for some larger 

 vessel, and sent to Desolation for the capture of whales, 

 sea-elephants, and seals, indiscriminately; she had a 

 Yankee mate, aud was intended by the Hobartown 

 merchants to be the pioneer of a fleet to compete with 

 the Yankees in the procuring of oil, which trade has, 

 for many years, been a prolific source of wealth to 

 those engaged in it ; the bleak shores of Kerguleus 



