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with Mufcles, and in tlie inlets, or fmall bays, were numbers 
of wild Ducks, many of which we fliot; 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 calks, on the next day, we con¬ 
tinued our journey northward. Colonel Gordon and myfelf 
left the waggon at ten in the morning, and purfued our jour¬ 
ney along the fliore, where we faw feveral huts. Great num¬ 
bers of fhells lay in heaps about thofe huts, which inclined us 
to fuppofe that the inhabitants fubfifted entirely on the fifli 
which they contained. At about one mile diftant from the 
fliore we faw a fmall ifland where we obferved feveral pieces 
of wood Ruck 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 fliore we obferved many bones of Seals. At nine 
in the evening we found that we had loll: 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 fallened 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-eafi: winds, whicli 
1779. 
Auguft. 
