CONTENTS. 



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CHAP. I. 



Q HO R T Account of the dlfFerent Perfons who have engaged in the 



Fur Trade — The King George's Sound Company eftablifhed — Two 



Veflels purehafed — The Complements of their drews, and Names 



of the OiBcers — Paflage from Gravefend to Portfmouth — In danger 



off the Cafkets — Arrival of the Ships at Guernfey,. Page i- 



C H A P. IL 



Various Refrefhments procured at Guernfey — Leave that Place, and 

 proceed on the Voyage — Remarkable Rock at the Eaft End of 

 Madeira — Send Difpatches from thence — Bonavifta — Mayo — Sal — 

 Arrival at Saint Jago — Occurrences there — Refrefhments to be met 

 with — Departure from thence — Precautions againft the Rain and 

 fultry Weather near the Equator — Fortunate Prefervation of a Boy 

 who fell over-board — Pafs a vafl: Quantity of Shrimp Spawn-i — Ar- 

 rival at Port Egmont — Falkland's Illands, - - ick 



CHAP. in. 



Various Employments in Port Egmont — Ruins of a Town difcovered— 

 Meet with two Ships employed in the Oil Trade — Method of ex- 

 trading Oil from the Blubber of the Sea Elephant — Several Birds 

 defcribed — Refrefhments obtained there — Leave Port Egmont and' 

 proceed to States Bay — Difference between the Sea Elephant and 

 Sea Lion pointed out — Remains of a Wreck difcovered — Depart 

 from Falkland's Illands and proceed on the Voyage — Staten's Land*— 

 1 1 Stormy" 



