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found the birds (?) flown. They saw nothing 

 therefore, but traces, in broken branches of trees, 

 etc., of their nightly resort thither. The captain, 

 however, shot one of the foxes before the day 

 was over. It was a black animal, with a head 

 more like a bat than a fox, very sharp teeth, and 

 long claws, and of about the size of a small fox. 

 At a regular hour each day, between ten o'clock 

 and twelve, the whole flock which frequented the 

 rock, took a flight over to the mainland, a distance 

 of perhaps eight miles. They moved in a solid 

 mass, like a flock of birds, and at a distance would 

 certainly have been taken for birds. 



The following day, (Monday), to the joy of 

 every one, we got under weigh and stood out of 

 the bay, bidding it adieu with a hearty determin- 

 ation never to return. 



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