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The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.
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cause neither Mr. Gray nor myself could find in them any
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Charles Island belonged to one species (Mimus trifasciatus)
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narrows away in the distance, and sinks beneath the horizon.
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For three weeks Hanson had remained. During this time he
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as well as of the tortoise. My attention was first thoroughly
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by myself and several other parties on board, of the mocking-thrushes,
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this more central part of the Pacific is higher than near
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moving westward. Then, one day, he announced that half
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must abide by that prevailing in his youth. An old man
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sub-group in this one small archipelago, and as a probable
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walk might kill six or seven dozen of these doves. At present,
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than the manners of these people. They generally began
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November 15th. — At daylight, Tahiti, an island which
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animals at the Galapagos is not the cause of their tameness
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