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rétinule re-embarked in the canoes, returning relud: 
tantly to their island, and the ships continued on 
their course,” (B. vii. ch. vi.) 
The island of Cabrita in Old Haroour Bay, on 
which this cacique dwelt as we are te'd in a large 
village, is the Goat island of our maps. It was 
from here that the first seeds. of the Sea Island 
cotton were obtained for the plantations in Georgia. 
It is now without a hut or an inhabitant. The 
fisherman’s canoe seldom visits it. It is the haunt 
of the bittren and the curlew. ‘The erek of the 
mangrove hen may be heard as it traverses the 
marshes, but searce any other voice. The goats 
that gave it#fs name of Cabrita, have ecu long ago 
exterminated. The manatee frequently found in 
the fresh-water swamps of the opposite coasts, oc- 
easionally swims to it to Miia the shallows, 
¥: Acoeeteh et hindaa af +h 
Govered with the green and glossy bindes of thé 
Zostera, or sea grass. ‘The rich argosies of Spain, 
laden with the ingots of the mines, rendez-voused 
here under the shelter of its heights in what is still 
ealled Galleon-harbour, but hardly any coasts of the 
island, presents less of life than the principality of 
this feathered chieftain. The seven islets have their 
respective bird tenantry still, and the shoals teem 
with fishes. Pelican key, possesses its peculiar 
nestlers, and pigeon island, is the resort of multi- 
tudinous flocks of the bald-pate dove, a pigeon that 
partakes so much of the rock-dove character as to 
flock to this remote island to build, They find 
there a sufficiency of arboreal foliage, and permit 
only an occasional white egret, to make a lodging 
