If this country, therefore, should be settled by people from Europe, they might, with a little industry, very soon be supplied in great abundance, not merely with the necessaries, but even with the luxuries of life.
In Eaheinomauwe there are no quadrupeds but dogs and rats.

At least, no other were seen by our voyagers; and the rats are so scarce that they wholly escaped the notice of many on board.

Of birds the species are not numerous; and of these no one kind, excepting perhaps the gannet, is exactly the same with those of Europe.

Insects are not in greater plenty than birds.

The sea makes abundant recompense for this scarcity of animals upon the land.