The earth and its inhabitants .. . .Some weighed several hundredweights, and it took six or eight men to turn them 272 SOUTU AMERICA—TEE ANDES EEGIONS. over ; tliev swarmed in such multitudos that the crews of passing vessels occasion-ally cai)tiired hundreds in a single hunt. ]{ut this source of wealth is now lost to the Galapagos ; the land tortoiseshave become everywhere rare except in Albemarle, and have disappeared alto-gether from Chatham. The otters, or sea lions, formerly abounding in thesurrounding waters, hive also vanished; but this region of the Pacitic is stillfrequented by the wh
The earth and its inhabitants .. . .Some weighed several hundredweights, and it took six or eight men to turn them 272 SOUTU AMERICA—TEE ANDES EEGIONS. over ; tliev swarmed in such multitudos that the crews of passing vessels occasion-ally cai)tiired hundreds in a single hunt. ]{ut this source of wealth is now lost to the Galapagos ; the land tortoiseshave become everywhere rare except in Albemarle, and have disappeared alto-gether from Chatham. The otters, or sea lions, formerly abounding in thesurrounding waters, hive also vanished; but this region of the Pacitic is stillfrequented by the whale, and sea turtles are also still very numerous in someplaces. In the waters of the archipelago is found a curious reptile, highly inte-resting to geologists, a marine lizard {(Uiib/i/r/n/nriis cnixfatiin), the last survivingspecies of a genus widely diffused in mesozoic times. In the interior of theislands various domestic animals—ox, ass, pig, sheep, goat, cat, and poultry— Fig. I jii-Chatham I ; (
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