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Departure from England--Storm Petrels--A Sparrow-hawk at Sea--Collecting Surface Organisms with Tow-net--Water-kite--Wire Sounding Apparatus--Land-swallow at Sea--Gulfweed--Phosphorescence of Sea-water--Arrive at Madeira--Curious Town--Dredging Work--A Pinery--Discoloured Sea-water--Petrels again--St. Vincent--Cape de Verde--Pelagic Animals--Sounding near Abrolhos Bank--Dredging over Hotspur Bank--Dredging over Victoria Bank--Moths and Butterflies on the Ocean--Extraordinary Vitality of Sphinx Moths--Arrive at Monte Video--Gauchos--Trip into Interior of Uruguay--Buenos Ayres--Dr. Burmeister's Museum--Arrive at the Falklands--"Stone Runs" 5-33