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chorean contest ; so the fiddler was brought on deck, 

 and after much coyness on the part of the performer?, 

 several highly characteristic, but, in my opinion, very 

 monotonous and ungraceful figures were executed on 

 both sides. At sunset, after repeated orders, and with 

 much trouble, our noisy visitors left the ship, their 

 departure being attended with the same frightful yells 

 and shouts that had graced their arrival. 



On Thursday morning, the weather being fine, 

 Captain Anderson proposed making the ascent of 

 Hungry Hill, a mountain adjacent, whose summit 

 reaches to the respectable height of 2050 feet : it 

 being his custom, wherever he anchored, to select the 

 highest spot of land in the neighbourhood, and to 

 ascend it, in order to learn the nature of the country 

 around. Several of us joined him in this by no 

 means formidable-looking excursion, though, before 

 we were half-way up, many of us regretted that we 

 had not remained with those keen sportsmen below, 

 who spent the day in vainly seeking some feathered, 

 or indeed any object on which to exercise their skill. 

 After a tedious ascent, we at last reached the summit, 

 but, as is usually the case, only to find ourselves 

 enveloped in a dense fog. Before we descended, 

 however, it cleared off for a few moments, enabling 

 us to get a hasty glimpse of the scenery around, 

 whilst far in the distance we descried the Terrible 

 and the Sphinx entering the haven by the narrow 

 channel at the west end. This latter fact Avas the 



