Its motion was exceedingly awkward and indecisive, and we never saw it attempt to run.

We noticed also several animals very similar in appearance, but of a greater length of body, and covered with a black wool.

There were a great variety of tame fowls running about, and these seemed to constitute the chief food of the natives.

To our astonishment we saw black albatross among these birds in a state of entire domestication, going to sea periodically for food, but always returning to the village as a home, and using the southern shore in the vicinity as a place of incubation.

There they were joined by their friends the pelicans as usual, but these latter never followed them to the dwellings of the savages.