At This Island There Are Good
Fish Of Various Sorts, One Of Which, Called The Silver-Fish, Is About
Twenty
Inches long, and eight deep, from back to belly, having five
small fins immediately behind the head, and one large
Fin from the last
of these to the tail; one middle-sized fin on each side near the gills,
and a large fin from the middle of the belly to the tail, which last is
half-moon shaped. The eyes are large, the nostrils wide, and the mouth
small. It is a thin fish, and full of bones, of a fine transparent
white, like silver.
[Footnote 206: Isla Grande is only in lat 30 deg. N. and St Paul's, stated
in the text, as 300 miles distant, is hardly 200, and is at within
twenty-five miles of the coast farther south. - E.]
Leaving the isle of Le Grand on the 8th December, we passed the islands
of Sebalt de Weert[207] [Falklands] on the 29th. In lat. 57 deg. 50' S. we
had a terrible storm, in which we lost company of our consort, the
Cinque-ports, on the 4th January, 1704. When in lat 60 deg. 51' S. on the
20th, believing we had sufficiently passed Cape Horn, we tacked to the
N. and got sight of the island of Mocha on the 4th February. This
island is in lat. 38 deg. 20' S. twenty miles from the coast of Chili, and
is well inhabited by Indians, who are always at war with the Spaniards,
and indeed with all white men, because they consider them all as
Spaniards.
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