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Terra del Fuego

were upon observ'd the footsteps of a large beast imprinted on the surface of a bog but could not with any probability guess of what kind it might be

Land birds there are very Few I saw none larger than an English blackbird except hawks & a vulture but water fowl are much more plentyfull in the first bay we were in I might have shot any quantity of ducks or geese but would not spare the time from gathering plants in the other we shot some but probably the Indians in the neighbourhood had made them shy as well as much less plentiful at least so we found them

Fish we saw few nor could with our hooks take any fit to eat Shell fish however are in the greatest abundance limpits muscles Clams &c. but none of them delicate yet such as they were we did not despise them

Insects there are very few & not one species either hurtfull or troublesome all the time we have been here we have seen neither gnat nor musqueto a circumstance which few if any uncleard countrey but this
 

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