FOURTH JOURNEY. 
with Mufcles, and in the inlets, or fmall bays, were numbers 
of wild Ducks, many of which we ihot ; but they were fo oily, 
as to prove very difagreeable food. In my botanical refearches, 
I found a variety of Mezembryanthemum, which I had never 
feen before. . 
After filling fome empty cafks, on the next day, we con- 
tinued our iourney northward. Colonel Gordon and myfelf 
left the waggon at ten in the morning, and purfued our jour- 
ney along the Ihore, where we faw feveral huts. Great num- 
bers of fliells lay in heaps about thofe huts, which inclined us 
to fuppofe that the inhabitants fubfifted entirely on the filh 
which they contained. At about one mile diilant from the 
fhore we faw a fmall ifland where we obferved feveral pieces 
of wood ftuck into the ground ; but we could not perceive any 
huts, and were convinced, by the number of Seals which we 
faw every where round it, that at this time it was uninhabited. 
Along the Ihore we obferved many bones of Seals. At nine 
in the evening we found that we had loft our way, and the 
guide advifed us to continue where we were till next morning. 
This day Colonel Gordon's companion left us, and promifed 
that he would return at night to the waggons. We accord- 
ingly made fires, that he might difcern where we were, but 
in vain. We fattened the cattle, and remained in this place 
during the night. 
In the morning we continued our courfe north, through a 
fandy country. We obferved to the eaftward a high ridge of 
fandy hills evidently thrown up by the fouth-eaft winds, which 
