has ac^ *t timss very h©a’»y surf on ths beaoh* Exoept for a perma- 
n«it water supply, the land herenbouts offers z-mn vmy tine building 
sites. 
We left daaes Island in the early aorning tours of April 20th 
and anohored off Yillaail, southern Albmerle,, a few jainutes after 
ten o* clock* ©le anotorege here is a aost raiserabl© one, for w© ©a- 
cotBitered ■aW; the worst swells of any in ail tto Islands* One aust 
andiorwell out froa store, ormr a raile, and proceed la in a snail 
boat, because tto reef® iarostiag the landing arc particularly bad* 
Fortunately, S^or Bolivar Gil caa.® out to fuld© us in. Captain Pick- 
ing had beoa directed to bring out a stsoll ibaerican sutt^ part that 
had spsBit th© past three laonths on tJiis Island* 
From Ylllamil w© iKived around to Poster Cove, Bllsabeth Bay, 
southern AlboEmrlo, where the greater part of th© night was spent, 
Early the next siorniag, April 21 st, we sowed up to fagus Gowe* This 
day and the following night were spent here befoivj we got under my 
for Cocos* 
iKirough the kindness of Captain Picking, it ms possible for 
us to pass close to Culpepper Island, the stost northerly of the 
G-alapagos group, and also to »ke a clrouit of It, I have been such 
interested in this island, wiiioh I saw olose up for the first tijac, 
because its upper levels towe never been trodden by mn and so still 
reiaain a virgin oolieotii^, field, th® only one of its kind in th© archi- 
pelago* To get up on this island, one would require special equipsaent, 
particularly mm scaffolding, as on alsiost every side bare cliffs appear 
to run up several hundred feet or mre* 
We raised CJocos in the early aomlng of April 24th, Before 
anchoring in Chatham Bay, a circuit of the Island ms made. Here, 
