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We faw the PefTerais eat rotten feal's fleih, and they prefented itto .origin 



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US as a great rarity 5 but though we examined the whole extent of eties. 

 Chriftmas-Bay in more than one boat, we never faw any feals. 

 It is therefore probable, that they are either- very fcarce in this- 

 part, or that they occaiionally migrate to other places, and return 

 to the found at certain feafons. One • man- among- them had a- 

 piece of a guanacoes-ikin for his clothing, but amongfl thirty 

 or forty, whom we faw, he was the only one: Chriflmas-Harbour- 

 feems to have none of thefe animals, as its lands confift of fmall- 



barren iiles, without any woods or graify places; which mights 

 afford food and ihelter for thefe- animals, and the fummits of the 



hills were at the end of December entirely covered with immenfe 

 maffes of fnow. It is therefore highly probable,- that thofe 

 Fejferats v/hom we faw there, remove to other places, where the 

 guanacocs are found. Farther to the Eafl:,.. on. Sierra dd Fuego^ 

 which confifts of a large mafs of land, without being divided into 

 fb many fmall iilands 3 we- and other navigators obfsrved large' 

 woods of fine timber, and extenfive plains covered with grafs^- 

 and if any guanacoes are. to be met with on. T^ierra del Fuego, ifc 

 mull: be there ; * but perhaps thofe animals are only to be- found' 





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*-Thc Dutch iiavigafors m the NalTau fleet; found feme anymals on Tkrra cU FuegOy^ 

 which they called a kind of deer ; but they are probably the guanacoes, common on the 

 acighbcurlng continent. See Rixueil dcs Fcyagcsfnhspourl''EtaUlJJ'(?ncntM:l(i Comp, des Lules 



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