VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



fplinters of very refinous fir ftuck into the wall, 

 were burning, giving us fufficient light, but far 

 too much fmoke. One of our holts took care 

 to replace theic bits of wood, as fa& as they 

 were con fumed. 



We had more need ojf reft than food ; ac- 

 cordingly we foon fell into a fieep, which was 

 the more pleafant, as it was not now difturbed 

 by the cold of the high mountains. 



The next day, the 19th, I went on board, 

 loaded with volcanic productions and fome very 

 pretty plants, among which were the tevxrium 

 betoniciim y vechiiim frufefeens, &c. 



The birds called Canaries are very common 

 in the lower regions of thefe mountains ; they 

 are all of a brown, mixed with different colours, 

 and their plumage is not fo handfome as in 

 a ftate of domefticity. Some travellers have 

 aflcrtcd, that there was in the iiland a fpecies of 

 parrot which is there indigenous. I never met with 

 one in any of our excurfions; and fcycral inha- 

 bitants, worthy of credit, told mc that this af- 

 fcrtion was altogether unfounded. 



This fame day I very frefh breeze had in- 

 crcafed the fea, fo that it threw on the beach 

 .fpcrancc's boat, which was riding at a grap- 

 ;k1, nrar the flip, after having ovcrtet her on a 

 failor, who could not be extricated for fome 

 minutes j he was apparently dead ; but, fortu- 



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