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A VOYAGE TO 



Book VIIL 



and the dangers of weathering Cape Horn, make 

 for the harbour of Juan FernandeSj are very careful 

 to fecure themfelves againfb the aboye-mentioned 

 dangers, and therefore fail up to the fartheft part of 

 the bay, where they moor with an anchor in the 

 water, and another on the S. W. fhore. But even 

 this precaution is not fometimes fufficient to fecure 

 them, as appears from the wrecks of three fhips j tv/o 

 of which have been long there, but the other of a 

 more recent date. 



. The ifland de Afuera is every where prodigious 

 high land, and the fhores fo fteep and craggy, as to 

 afford no convenient landing-place ; which, toge- 

 ther with its having no harbour, prevents all fhips, 

 whether fhofe of the enemy, or the country, from 

 touching at it. 



The fea, all around the ifland de Tierra, may be 

 faid to be filled with fea-wolves, of which there 

 are obferved to be three principal fpecies ; the firfl 

 are fmall, not being above a yard in length, and 

 their hair a dark brown : thofe of the fecond are 

 about a toife and a half in length, and of a greyifh 

 brown colour : and thofe of the third are in ge- 

 neral two toifes in length, and the hair of a pale 

 aOi-colour. The head of thefe creatures is too 

 fmall in proportion to the refl of their body, and 

 terminates in a fnout ; which bearing a great re- 

 femblance to that of a wolf, they have acquired 

 the name. The mouth is proportioned to the head 5 

 but the tongue is very thick, and almoft round* 

 They have a row of large pointed teeth in each 

 jaw, two thirds of which are in alveoli or fockets 5 

 but the others, being the moft hard and folid are 

 vvithout them. This threatening appearance is 

 heightened by whifkers like thofe of cats, or rather 

 tygers. Their eyes are fmall and their ears, from 

 the root to the extremity, not above fix or eight 

 lines in length, and of a proportional breadth. Their 



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