434 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



After having refolved to pafs the night oil 

 fhore, we looked for a. convenient place, and 

 we at length found a hollow in a Tock, where 

 we were for fome time perfectly flickered from 

 the wind and the rain, which came on at the 

 clofe of the day. The cold was fufficiently 

 fharp to induce us to kindle a. fire ; beiides, wo 

 had not much provifion, and after I had felecled 

 from the birds I had fhot thofe I wiflied to pre- 

 ferve for my collection, I gave my companions 

 the others, which they broiled on the coals* 

 We were expecting to make a tolerably good 

 fupper, and to fleep afterwards very quiet- 

 ly, when all on a fudden the wind fhiftcd and 

 became ingulfed in our cave, which we were 

 forced to leave very quickly, that we might not 

 be fliflcd by the fmoke. This difappointment 

 made us regret our not having returned on board, 

 for the wind was fo high as to extinguifh our 

 rirc before our penguins were quite done, but 

 ft ill we found them very good. 



An ample flock of water, which we had 

 brought from the top of the mountain, afforded 

 us, while making this meal, the agreeable re- 

 flection that here, at leafi, we might drink as 

 much as we chofe. 



As foon as the day broke on the 15th, I pro- 

 ceeded towards the fouth-wefl. Amon^ a <jreat 

 many other plants, I gathered at the foot of the 



mountains, 



