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CHArTER III. 
The Cape of Good Hope— A Four Days’ Beetle Hunt — Millar’s Point — 
"Whales’ Bones — Fish “ galore ” — Wrecked Violet-Snails — A 
Stranded Fiddle-fish — Connorants and Penguins — Burrowiug-Snails 
— A Vegetable Parachute. 
Having accomplished the purpose for wliich we 
Averc sent to Eio Janeiro, Ave left it, on our re- 
turn, toAA'ing the “Dove,” our little steam-tender, 
by tAvo 9 -inch hemp haAA^sers, and after a voyage of 
six AAxeks, AA^e reached the Cape of Good Hojie. On 
our ai’rival the liaAvsers, AAdiich Avere quite ncAv on 
starting, Avere hauled inboard, Avhen they Avere 
found coA^ered AAuth barnacles along their Avholc 
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length. These Avere nearly all full-grown, and, AAuth 
the exception of one small Avdiite kind of Balanus, 
Avere all pedunculated or stalked, belonging to the 
genera Lepas, Scalpellum and Otion. So numerous 
AA^re they, that even Avlien the haAA^sers Avere 
comparatively freed from them, they became so 
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