Mr. WAFERS Voyages, &c. 381 



Partakers in the Frolick : Nor did they recover it 

 under 4 or 5 Days Time. 



From hence we flood on ftill to the South, and { Galla* 

 came to one of the Gallapago-l(ld.nds 9 lying under pag^s . 

 the Line. Upon one of thefe Iflands we found a LandTop* 

 great many very large Land-Tortoife, of that Sort toife,c?£. 

 which we us'd to call Hecate. Upon this Ifland is 

 no Water to be found, but in one Flace 3 whither 

 I obferv'd thefe Animals frequently go to drink * 

 but they go not into the Water. 



At this Ifland there was but one Watering-place, 

 and there We careen'd our Ship. Hither many Tur- 

 tle-Doves and other Birds reforted for Water \ 

 which were at firft fo familiar with us, that they 

 would light upon our Heads and Arms ; infomuch 

 that for feveral Days we maintained the Ship's Com- 

 pany with them : But in a little Time they began to 

 be fo fhy, that we could kill none but what we fhot. 

 Hero are alfo Guano's very plentiful, which are very Guano*. 

 good Food. There grows a Sort of Wood in this 

 Ifle very fweet in fmell. *Tis but a low Tree, not 

 fhrubby, but like a Pear-tree, tho* thicker ; and 

 full of very fweet Gum. While we lay here at the 

 Gallapago's, we took in at one of the Iflands there 

 500 Packs of Flower, which we had formerly left 

 there upon the Rocks ; but the Turtle-Doves had Flower 

 devoured a great deal of the Flower, for the Bags left there 

 layexpos'd to the Air. 



When we left the Gallapago's we went cruifing upcruifing 

 and down about feveral of the Iflands and Coafts of on the 

 Peru ; the Particulars of which I fhall not trouble ^ ftof 

 the Reader with. We had Engagements at Guvra, 

 Guacba, and Pifca ; and the two laft very fharp ones, 

 yet we took the Towns. There was with us then in 

 Company Captain Knight only ; for the other two 

 Veflels that came with us from Amapalla, had left 

 us ^£ the Ifland Com. Twas July 1686. when we 



were 



