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Fair/' where those birds congregate in great 

 numbers, h& ^toek #ame.i^ t^«a99Lind[iA.a; eai^on; 

 tlM^ back of beQ4 iEi^ th^ di^i!gameiit 

 the fish they had swaliowed immediately took 



plaeo. 



By three p. m. we were oft' the settlement, in the 

 roadstead of wliich au American ship, and several 



did iioten1«rfhe^i$^ds^&ji4, bat* toi$&ig^T en- 



and miniber, ]n'oceodcd on onr voyage, and 

 by tin?! evening h-ft tlie ishvnd far in the <!ist,ance. 

 Having on a former voyage, in 1831, visited 

 Jasttd^d upoaa tWf ^sk«id, I perJmps may be 

 es^used for ititroducliig l<he Mbwiti^ aie^nnt, 

 from observations made at t.liat period ; — 



About noon (of tbe lOtli of February, 1831) 

 we were oil' the settlement situated on the north- 



stmcted 1iot]se& $spipeax^ tisH^inf ^ li^^ 

 bwen scene around. A transport (St. Croix) 

 was at anehor in the roads, havinu; just arrived 

 with stores; a boat came olf from the settlement, 

 with a book, ia whioh ifte sfiip^^Wlej m& 

 Inserted. I mi^B^^fde^ iihe wmtamB^iiT on a 

 vidt t«> Ihe shore : the landing is sometimes 

 dangerous, on aecoiiiit of the surf ; at this time 

 it was very easily ellei'tcd . The landing-place 

 was on a flight of stej>ri, at the extremity of a 

 voIhIi* a 



