They generally catch two or three a season, so as to average 40 or 50 barrels of oil apiece. I saw their lookout mast, their chaldron and furnace for rendering the oil and their whaleboats. He has taken some whales of 90 barrels of oil. The large bones of whales lay about, bleaching in the sun. About his place are many oak and holly trees.
Gunners go there much, in the same season, for wild geese and ducks.
Inman has killed 24 geese in a day. Sheep, mules and horses are pastured and browsed on the northern end of the island by himself and others. As we sail back to our boarding house, we notice many fish in the waters we traverse. We might have speared them had we been disposed and had we the proper instruments. On Monday, Aug. 17, I awoke at five o'clock and found the wind fair at southwest.