xxiv VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST 



completing a voyage of seven months, during which 

 time we had covered about 19,000 miles. The 

 following is the detailed itinerary : 



Las Palmas, 13th to 16th November, 1905 ; 

 Put back to Las Palmas owing to illness of 



one of the crew 17th November; 

 St. Paul's Rocks, 2nd December ; 

 Bahia, 10th to 30th December ; 

 South Trinidad, 3rd to 5th January, 1906 ; 

 Martin Vas, 5th January ; 

 Tristan da Cunha, 17th to 20th January ; 

 Cape Town, 28th January to 8th February ; 

 Durban, 14th to 15th February ; 

 Mayotte, Comoro Islands, 23rd February to 



3rd March ; 



Diego Suarez, Madagascar, 4th to 9th March ; 

 Glorioso Island, 10th to llth March; 

 Assumption Island, 12th to 13th March ; 

 Aldabra, 13th to 16th March ; 

 Aground on Assumption, 16th to 17th March ; 

 Mahe, Seychelles Islands, 22nd March to 



2nd April ; 

 Praslin and Felicite Islands, Seychelles, 2nd 



to 5th April ; 



Mahe (second visit), 5th to 8th April ; 

 Aden, 14th to 17th April ; 

 Suez, 23rd April ; 

 Port Said, 24th to 27th April ; 

 Gibraltar, 5th to 8th May ; 

 Cowes, 13th May, 1906. 



The results obtained during this voyage were 

 more important than those of the two preceding 

 ones. 



The collection of bird-skins, numbering five 



