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from the Iky, like fo many maffes of lead, 
iipon the fifh which they obferved in the 
water. At the fame time the albatroffes and 
frigats, more nimble in their motions, feized 
their prey, while brufhing the furface of the 
waves with an eafy and rapid flight ; and the 
pelican, with his huge body and broad-webbed 
feet, fwam majefticaliy along, filling his capa-* 
cious gullet with the fmall fry, which he fifhed 
for with folemn gravity. Having, with a few 
difcharges of my fufee, dilperfed all thefe 
winged tribes to a diftance, I retired. 
My tafte for new objeds led me to avoid 
murning to the town by the way I had come* 
I knew that in the neighboiirhood of Falfe, and 
hear Simon's Bay, there were barracks, where 
a detachment of troops from the garrifon was 
alvyays ftationed. A poft fo diftant from the 
Cape is a kind of exile, during a great part of 
the yfear, to the men who are fent thither ; and, 
for this reafon, caire Is taken every three months 
to relieve them. 
At that time, the commandant of this dreary 
def^rt was an officer whom I had often had an 
opportunity of feeing at the houfe of Boers, 
i was therefore defirous of paying him a vifit, 
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