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The Royalties immediately cut these adrift and let 

 them go." 



IVIZA 



" May gth. Ran through the Frena and anchored 

 in Iviza harbour about 7 a.m. on morning of 9th. A 

 pretty bay and tolerably snug anchorage formed by 

 several islands ; a sort of amphitheatre of hills with 

 scrubby vegetation, the plains at foot of them apparently 

 well cultivated and dotted with flat-topped houses. My 

 principal object here is to try to get over to explore 

 Formentera. The Consul tells me he has property and 

 a salt lake there, but there is no possibility of lying 

 anywhere there with this detestable wind. We heard 

 of some salt pans in Iviza, which sounded likely for 

 birds, and went about with the son of the Consul to try 

 and find the officer of the Civil Guard to give us leave 

 to shoot, but he was not to be found. The town is 

 crowded on a rocky hillside with a fort and church at 

 the top. Good market places. We bought a poun4 of 

 tunny brought in this morning from Formentera. People 

 talk a curious sort of Valencian patois. Red caps a la 

 Catalan seem to be much the fashion here." 



" May loth. Fine and bright, wind still strong 

 but not so cold. We all went away after breakfast in 

 cutter, skirting the shores to the south-west, chiefly 

 rocky, with here and there stretches of sandy beach. We 

 landed first at the foot of a range of sombre hills and 



