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Updated: May 23, 2025
And there is the well-known `pintail, and the `pochard' or `red-head; and the `mallard, from which comes the common domestic variety, and the `scoter, and `surf, and `velvet, and `dusky, ducks these last four being all, more or less, of a dark colour. And there are the `shell-drakes, or `fishers, that swim low in the water, dive and fly well, but walk badly, and feed altogether on fish.
In the afternoon, we saw several gulls, a seal, and some shell-drakes. At noon on the 6th, we saw Cape Horn, bearing west-south-west half west, and the northernmost land in sight, west half south, distant six or seven leagues. At that time, our latitude was 56° 02' south, and the longitude 291° 45' east.
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