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three very large cetaceans out at sea and some stormy 

 petrels. The few goats we saw on Cahera appeared to 

 be quite tame. It is said that there are wild goats on 

 the island." 



IVIZA 



" June $th. Anchored in the Bay of Iviza. The town 

 of Iviza stands on a rock of the north side of the bay in a 

 rather good situation, but looks a poor place. A pretty 

 amphitheatre of hills with fine cultivation in the valleys. 

 We got away with a breeze from east-south-east ; very 

 heavy sea till we got through the passage between Iviza 

 and Formentera. Here we found the water perfectly 

 smooth, and slipped merrily along past Vedra, a high 

 and curiously shaped little island, into the Bay of San 

 Antonio of Puerto Magus, and brought up about 4.30 

 p.m. in five fathoms close to the little village of San 

 Antonio. I heard several quails calling. No rock doves, 

 which I had hoped for. Beautiful warm evening. 



" Apparently a singular absence of birds all round 

 the coast of Iviza. We saw nothing, but a very few 

 yellow-legged herring gulls (L. leucoph<tus\ and a very 

 few shearwaters. A good many flying fish." 



" June 6th. A man of San Antonio assured me that 

 on the islands Correjera and Bledas are many black 

 lizards, which are not found on Iviza ; he also declares 

 that there are no snakes at all in Iviza. Several tunny 

 fish followed close under our stern for a long time ; one 



