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contain insects ; and the ant is particularly danger- 

 ous to their young. 



The sea-fowl are always met with, according to 

 our frequent experience, to windward of the island, 

 where they build their nests. In the morning 

 they are seen flying far from the shore with the 

 wind, and returning in the evening likewise with 

 the wind. Kadu also seemed to notice the flight 

 of the birds in the evening. 



Fragments of a wrecked ship are said to have 

 been seen at Sala y Gomez j we, however, looked 

 for it in vain. One shudders at the idea of the 

 possibility that a human being might have been 

 cast here alive; for the eggs of the sea-fowl would 

 have but too well sufficed to protract his wretched 

 existence, between the sea and sky, on these bare 

 sun-burnt rocks. 



