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11 kittle on the wing, I believe nothing, except a wandering CHAP, 
aioatross, until we approached the island of Sala-y-Gomez. 
In the Pacific, in particular, the navigator should not be in- 
attentive to the presence or absence of birds, as they will generally be 
ound in the vicinity of islands, and especially of such as are uninhabited 
and of coral formation. On the 14th, several tropic birds, boatswains, 
and gannets, flew round the ship, and were hailed as an omen which 
^ c c^i°^ eceive us, for at daylight, on the following morning, the island 
of Sala-y-Gomez was seen from the mast-head, bearing N.N.W., fifteen 
miles distant. ® 
much"'resf“t£ been ‘stat" 
:h:i: 
amiZtbel “I'” “ distinguished 
for roostin n t been selected 
a sZ X J “ ^“■•k-brown colour. Upon 
Ws o w r T “ vegetation, and near it a few 
reX f ’ «>ight convert into the 
reZ" nlace‘””Tn”‘T “ there found a 
sels wX rZ keen missing in these 
gZ! Z T ‘^“■gence of any having been wrecked here, Sala-y- 
a vesTe’nZ Z'*T ke found the frame of 
the same ' P™kability the wood which we saw was 
land were fully I \ ” f ™ ““v curiosity and desire to 
breakers whil rollZ" ’ '‘isappointed by the high 
men rolled over every part of the shore. 
scrutinizing k''wttb°'”'^ *”' 1 '* 'cc of the island, narrowly 
f f ° Ti • * telescopes, but without adding to our in 
tormation. Dunne this t-u i ^ 
bonitos but none wZ tab ^^'P surrounded by sharks and 
tb If, 'rl, r bsbermen more fortunate at 
the bottom. Ihe feathery tribe., disturbed from their roost cle 
fearlessly around us; we shot several, and in the stomach T 
pehcan a volcanic pebble was found, which some of us conjectured to 
• Ph»t«„ e.he,e„s, Pelicaaus leucocephalus, sterna stoUda, Mrd a small dove-coWd tern. 
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