The few fur-seals I saw were very shy; and of fishes I saw next to none at all.

I did not catch one; indeed, I seldom or never put a hook over during the whole voyage.

Here in the strait I found great abundance of mussels of an excellent quality.

I fared sumptuously on them.

There was a sort of swan, smaller than a Muscovy duck, which might have been brought down with the gun, but in the loneliness of life about the dreary country I found myself in no mood to make one life less, except in self-defense..