MEDITERRANEAN NOTES
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on getting within a few miles saw several small whales spouting and blowing all around us. p.m., and
2
We
anchored on the south side of the island about 5.45 p.m., in
sand and weed,
fathoms
eight
and Ruiz, T., and
I
went off to a landing-place just below the lighthouse, speaking two of the inhabitants on our way, fishing, or rather
setting
One of
trot.
no birds but
there were a
a
gulls
men
these
"
The
island
a mile long, across.
It
sandstone,
imbedded
therein,
laying.
rather
more than
with
here
and
there
big
and with many caves and
reefs lying off
western
say,
see
half
and apparently only some few hundred yards is all low cliff, some fifty feet high, of a
yellowish
flat
should
I
is,
that
we could
(of which
good many), and only one kind, now
us
told
The
it.
end of the
stones
and
fissures
lighthouse stands close to the Several
island.
rather inhabitants of the lighthouse,
of the natives,
came down
to
or
speak
and told us the lighthouse has only been built that there were four families, no spring of three years to
us,
;
water,
only one
sort of gull
no rock doves, many
seals,
(of which they had
and sometimes
a
birds of passage, quails, turtle-doves, hoopoes,
eggs),
good many and larks.
T. and Ruiz landed to explore whilst I cruised round in I saw the cutter. herring and lesser black-backed gulls,,
and fancied that length
of wing,
I
made out Audouin's
but
1
turnstone, two or three
did
not
common
two or three redshanks and two
get
a
gull shot.
by
its
great
Saw one
sandpipers and whimbrel,. stilts,
evidently on migra-
