piece of paper like a sail, and then blowing upon it in the
direction of the wind, at the same time pointing to the ships, thereby
denoting that the wind was fair, and that we had only to set sail and
leave the island. Several of the people were marked with the small-pox.
The children kept out of our reach at first, but before we went away,
their fears had, in some degree, subsided, for the boys, who, from their
feminine appearance, were mistaken at first for girls, accompanied us to
some distance from the village.

Captain Maxwell named these islands Sir James Hall's group, in
compliment to the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. They lie
in longitude 124