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supplies, had only had three visits from vessels, except 

 their supply boat, in the last three years, and have been 

 twenty-seven days now expecting this last. They have 

 turned out a few rabbits, which they say are doing well.'* 



VALENCIA 



" April lyth. Talked of going into Alicante, but it 

 fell nearly calm at night, and as we were still some way 

 from that port at daylight of 3Oth, I decided on going 

 right on to Valencia ; so we got up steam and ran along 

 the coast, which is very wild and barren high rugged 

 peaks, here and there a bay, with a village and some 

 cultivation. Curious Gibraltar-like rock, near Calpe. Saw 

 a gannet, the first I ever recollect to have seen in the 

 Mediterranean, except at the back of the rock of Gibraltar. 

 We did not see more than three or four gulls during 

 these last two days, or any other sea birds, though some 

 parts of the coast seem well suited for them." 



" May ind. Don Manuel Cabelle, who tells me that 

 the Crown Prince of Austria is expected, and wants., to 

 shoot on the Albufera, where, as there is no shooting 

 to be done at this time of year, they propose to get up 

 a mullet fishery for him." 



"May yd. In Museum best things in birds are Aquila n&via, 

 Sylvia melanogaster, Tichodroma murarias, Totanus fuscus, T. 

 stagnates, Oidemia fusca. I find that Emberiza citrinella is common 

 here. I merely mention the above birds as all having occurred near 

 Valencia while not common in Spain." 



