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to any European fliip which might touch at this port. Dampier 

 recommended the eredlion of a fort, and mentions, amono- 

 other advantages, that fliips might in this ifland be fupplied 

 with mafts and yards, poffibly from the fame tree which fur- 

 nifhes the tar and pitch. 



The animals, when Dampier refided on the ifland, were only Animals. 

 hogs, lizards, and guanoes. Before Captain Gore reached Fulo 

 Condore, it was plentifully flocked wath buffaloes, tranfported 

 from the continent, which increafe here very fuccefsfully. 

 Numbers of monkies inhabit the w^oods, and two fpecies of 

 fquirrels, one of a beautiful fliining black, the other of the 

 kind called 7?j//>^-, ftriped brown and wliite, and probably a new" 

 fpecies. Gaubil2\{o obferved rats with pendulous ears. To the 

 reptiles we add, that father Gaubil faw here, in 1722, the flying 

 dragon, or Draco-volans ; a fcaly fpecies of lizard called Koka, from 

 its piercing note refembling in found that word ; it refides in 

 hollow trees; its bite is mortal. From thefe circumftances I 

 fufpedl it to be the Gekko. 



Here are a variety of parrots, paroquets, and pigeons, and in 

 the woods numbers of poultry, in a flate of nature. I refer the 

 reader, for a further account, to page 262. vol. ii. of the Outlines 

 of the Globe. The thrufh, called by Mr. Latham"^ the Long- 

 tailed, may be added to the lifl of birds. 



Dampier found on the fliores great plenty of the green turde ; Tortoises. 

 thefe he fuppofes to have been in a flate of migration, being of 

 opinion, that fc^r want of food it is impoflible for them to flay 

 the whole year in the neighboring feas. Our great navigator 



* Vol. ii. p. 72. 



Vol. III. I found 



