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Excerpt from Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe, From the Year 1833 to 1836, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising Sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, Etc; With an Account of Southern Whales, the Sperm Whale Fishery, and the Natural History of the Climates Visited Final departure from the Sandwich group-Proceed for the "off-shore" cruising ground - Approach the American continent - Discover a cluster of islands - The Lobos Islands - Arrival at Gape St. Lucas-Description of its coast and settlement -Inhabitants of an estancia, or grazing-farm - Their social state - Religion -Commerce -Natural productions of the Cape - The Puma, or American lion-Deer-Vultures, or Turkey-buzzards - Pigeons-Reptiles - Turtle - Haliotis, or ear-shell - Vegetation of the soil - Its luxuriance and beauty - Species of Cactus - The Sargasso-weed. We took our final leave of the Sandwich Islands on the 4th of November, 1835; and proceeded for the American continent and the Equator by nearly the same route we had taken in the preceding year. On this occasion, however, it was not until we reached the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude that we found winds favourable to an easterly course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.