182 SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND cuz. vir 
water. Portable soup is very good; it has now and then 
required an airing to prevent it from moulding. Sour crout 
is as good as ever. 
So much for the ship’s company: we ourselves are hardly 
as well off as they. Our live stock consists of seventeen 
sheep, four or five fowls, as many South Sea hogs, four or five 
Muscovy ducks, and an English boar and sow with a litter 
of pigs. In the use of these we are rather sparing, as the 
time of our getting a fresh supply is rather precarious. 
Salt stock we have nothing worth mentioning, except a kind 
of salt beef and salted cabbage. Our malt liquors have 
answered extremely well; we have now both small beer and 
porter upon tap, as good as I ever drank them, especially 
the latter. The small beer had some art used to make it 
keep. Our wine I cannot say much for, though I believe it 
to be good in its nature; we have not had a glass full these 
many months, I believe chiefly owing to the carelessness or 
ignorance of the steward. 
2nd October. Took Dagysa rostrata, serena, and polyedra ; 
Beroe inerassata and coarctata; Medusa vitrea ; Phyllodoce 
velella, with several other things which are all put in spirits ; 
Diomedea exulans ; Procellaria velox, palmipes, latirostris, and 
longipes ; and Nectris fuliginosa. 
3rd. In the course of the day several pieces of a new 
species of seaweed were taken, and one piece of wood covered 
with striated barnacles (Lepas anserina). 
5th. Two seals passed the ship asleep, and three birds 
which Mr. Gore calls Port Egmont hens (Larus catarrhactes). 
He says they are a sure sign of our being near land. They 
are something larger than a crow; in flight much like one, 
flapping their wings often with a slow motion. Their 
bodies and wings are of a dark chocolate or soot colour; 
under each wing is a small broadish bar of a dirty white, 
which makes them so remarkable that it is hardly possible 
to mistake them. They are seen, as he says, all along the 
coast of South America and the Falkland Isles. I myself 
remember to have seen them at Terra del Fuego, but by 
some accident did not note them down. 
