[58] Bougainville Harbour, better known to Sealers by the name of 'Jack's Harbour.'
[59] "Voyage autour du Monde." 1767.
[60] One of the feathered tribe, which a naturalist would not expect to find here, a 'humming bird,' was shot near the beach by a young midshipman.—Stokes MS.
[61] Hawkesworth's Coll. of Voyages, vol. i. p. 76.
[62] It was here that Commodore Wallis and Captain Carteret separated, the Dolphin going round the world; the Swallow returning to England. Sarmiento's name of Puerto de la Misericordia, or 'Harbour of Mercy,' being of prior date, ought doubtless to be retained.
[63] Called the Scilly Isles.
[64] 'Anas Rafflesii,' Zool. Journ., vol. iv., and Tab. Supp., xxix.
[65] Of these a species of mactra (M. edulis Nob.) was most abundant.
[66] Burney, i. 35 and 37.
[67] Falkner's Patagonia, pp. 110, 111.