Sea elephants were abundant, especially on the western coast of the mainland, but of these we killed only twenty, and this with great difficulty.

On the smaller islands we discovered a good many of the hair seal, but did not molest them.

We returned to the schooner: on the eleventh, where we found Captain Guy and his nephew, who gave a very bad account of the interior, representing it as one of the most dreary and utterly barren countries in the world.

They had remained two nights on the island, owing to some misunderstanding, on the part of the second mate, in regard to the sending a jollyboat from the schooner to take them off..