Vol. III. Mifcellanea Curiofa. 411 



'part of a 'journal heft from Scot- 

 land to New Caledonia in Da- 

 rien , i^nth a Jhort udccount of 

 that Country. Communicated by 

 ^)r. Wallace, F.R.^. 



SEftember 2. we weighed at Maderas^ and 

 were under the Tropic of Cancer by the 

 loth of the Month, at which time theufual 

 Ceremony of Ducking from the Yards-arm 

 was performed on thofe that could not pay 

 their Tropick Bottle. All this time we had 

 a brisk and conftant Trade-wind, which laft- 

 ed three days more, but afterwards we had 

 it more variable than is ufual in that place 

 of the Sea. 



The 28th we made Befeada^ a fmall high 

 Ifland, about a league in length and as much 

 in breadth i it is full of Trees, but whether 

 it affords Water or not I know not. It is 

 uninhabited. Next morning we were be- 

 twixt Amego and Montferat ^ belonging to 

 the Englijh^ both pretty large and mountain- 

 ous. Amego is Peopled with Englijh for the 

 moft part, and Montferat by a mixture of 

 Englijh and Jrijh. Their Produft is Sugar 

 and Tobacco. We were in the afternoon 

 clofe by Redonda^ a fmall Rock about a mile 

 long, inhabited only by Noddies and Boobies. 

 When we were fome leagues from Redonda^ 



we 



