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quantity $ yet it did not end iirDrunkennefs : 

 But however, that fort of Liquor had foJ^J^h 

 chilled and benumb'd their Nerves, that drinking 

 they could neither go nor (land Norj^jj^ 

 could they return on board the Ship , 

 without the Help of thofe who had not 

 been Partakers in the Frolick : Nor did 

 they recover it under four or five Days 

 time. 



From hence weftood onftill to the South, 1. GdU- 

 and came to one of the Gal/apago-lQzndsJ*^ 

 lying under the Line. Upon one of thefe 

 Iflands we found a great many very large^^^" 

 Land-Tortoife, of that fort which we us d to 

 call Hecate. Upon this Ifland is no Water 

 to be found, but in one place, whither I ob- 

 ferv'd thefe Animals frequently go to drink 5 

 but they go not into the Water. 



At this Ifland there was but one Water- 

 ing-place, and there we Careen d our Ship. 

 Hither many Turtle-Doves and other Birds 

 reforted for Water $ which were at firft fo 

 familiar with us, that they would light up- 

 on our Heads and Arms ^ infomuch that for fe* 

 veral Days we maintained the Ships Com- 

 pany with them : But in a little time they 

 began to be fo (hy, that we could kill none 

 but what we (hot. Here are alfo Guano s Gm ^ 

 very plentiful , which are very good ? 

 Food ? There grows a fort of Wood in 

 this Ifle very fweet in fmell. Tis but a 

 low Tree, not fhrubby, but like a Pear-tree, 



tho' 



