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 room was the top of a hen-coop on deck. Even here, Second 



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an unsavoury Uttle beast, called bug, was neither shy — 



nor deficient in appetite. 



The Portuguese seamen are famed for catching fish. 

 One evening, under the line, four sharks made their 

 appearance in the wake of the vessel. The sailors caught 

 them all. 



On the fourteenth day after leaving Pernambuco, the 

 brig cast anchor off the island of Cayenne. The entrance 

 is beautiful. To windward, not far oiF, there are two 

 bold wooded islands, called the Father and Mother ; and 

 near them are others, their children, smaller, though as 

 beautiful as their parents. Another is seen a long way 

 to leeward of the family, and seems as if it had strayed 

 from home, and cannot find his way back. The French 

 call it " I'enfant perdu." As you pass the islands, the 

 stately hills on the main, ornamented with ever-verdant 

 foliage, show you that this is by far the sublimest scenery 

 on the sea-coast, from the Amazons to the Oroonoquo. 

 On casting your eye towards Dutch Guiana, you will see 

 that the mountains become unconnected, and few in 

 number, and long before you reach Surinam, the Atlantic 

 wave washes a flat and muddy shore. 



Considerably to windward of Cayenne, and about twelve 

 leagues from land, stands a stately and towering rock, 

 called the Constable. As nothing gi-ows on it to tempt 

 greedy and aspiring man to claim it as his own, the 



