122 LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Cuttle-fish are very abundant in the rock pools at low 
water, and in one deep pool we found a good-sized Octopus 
coiled up in some loose rock crevices, which it adhered to 
by its suckers with so tenacious a grip that it was with 
great difficulty we were able to dislodge the animal and 
effect a capture. 
The indigenous land mammals and reptiles are not 
numerous. The large breed of dogs, from which the 
Canaries are supposed to have derived their name, is long 
ago extinct, though their remains have been found. 
Lizards are very abundant, but all are included in three 
species. We found mosquitoes very troublesome, and 
were victimized by them in spite of mosquito curtains 
with which most of the beds are furnished. large black 
flying-cockroaches too are common, even about the bed- 
rooms in Grand Canary, and although we found them on 
two successive nights, our male chambermaid said that 
each was the first he had ever seen, and evidently hinted 
as politely as possible that we had imported them. 
There is much to be seen in Grand Canary, but it is 
hke the Lotus country, 
‘In which it seemed always afternoon. 
All round the coast the languid air did swoon, 
Breathing like one that hath a weary dream,” 
and there is not much inclination for any exertion. We 
found sea dredging attended with difficulties. There is 
usually a considerable surf and swell on, and we had to 
take eight Spanish sailors to manage the boat. The rocky 
bottom is very deep, except very near the shore, and with 
thirty fathoms of rope to the dredge we felt it scraping the 
surface of hard rock, frequently catching in crevices or 
jutting edges, and seldom fetching up much except a few 
Hchinoderms, broken bits of coral, &c. The steepness of 
the coast appears to prevent the growth of much Algae, 
