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stock of them. Dunghill fowls breed three or four 

 times a-year. I have one now setting for the fourth 

 time, and think she will make out to bring the fifth 

 set of chickens before winter. Of ducks 1 have only 

 ten having lost all my turkeys, Muscovy ducks, and 

 all of the English ducks, except three, by their eating 

 fish - guts last winter. I have a piece of ground, 

 about 10 or 12 acres, containing two ponds, where 

 the sea-elephants abound. Here I have eight sows, 

 and four boars, quite tame all of which, save five, 

 we have caught on the island, of which there are 

 many more : some we have shot, and some knocked 

 down, &c. All this stock, together with ourselves, 

 live at present on the flesh of the elephant. The 

 pigs, hoAvever, may live altogether on herbage where 

 they are for which purpose, indeed, I put them 

 down there ; but I give them an elephant once in ten 

 or fifteen days to keep them in heart. The dandelion 

 grows here in the greatest luxuriance, and very 

 abundant. All the wild pigs live on those, and on 

 a very pleasant smelling strawberry-leaved kind of 

 geranium. We have shot a few wild goats, of which 

 there are, I suppose, twelve or sixteen left. I want 

 a few sheep, tame goats, and rabbits, to stock the 

 island with game. We have the little black-cock in 

 great numbers, and, in the fall, are very fat and deli- 

 cate. We caught some hundreds last year Avith a 

 dog, but I have none proper for them, such as a 

 terrier would be. The mountains are covered with 



