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Various attempts to colonize the Galapagos. 



At various times people have lived in the Galapagos ; but these attempts at coloniza- 

 tion do not seem to have been permanently successful. The first person who took up 

 his abode there was an Irishman of the name of Patrick Watkins, who settled himself 

 on Charles Island, living on tortoises and growing potatoes, with which he traded with 

 the whalers. He went to Guayaquil in an open boat in 1809 to look for a wife, and 

 was there killed. 



In 1832 Don Jose ViUamil bought two of the islands from the Government of 

 Ecuador, to one of which (Charles Island) he brought over all the inmates of the 

 prisons of Guayaquil. These he established in the centre of the island. 



Mr. Darwin, at the time of his visit, estimated the number of these colonists at 200 ; 

 and he met with a party of them on James Island, where they had gone to fish and 

 catch tortoises. This colony in 1849 had diminished to about twenty-five persons, 

 the stock of tortoises failing, and with them the inducement to whaling-ships to call. 

 Whether any persons remain on Charles Island at the present time I have not been 

 able to ascertain. 



In 1838, Wreck Bay, in Chatham Island, was inhabited by a native of Guayaquil 

 and an Englishman, who maintained themselves by supplying American whalers with 

 tortoises and vegetables. 



