1853 we had found here on our arrival, sailed for Cape Town via Ports Praya. Monday, July 11. Funchal. Several fishermen, boys and idlers whom I had engaged brought me many species of the great variety of fish, for which Madeira is so justly celebrated, and also a number of shore-crabs and other animals of interest. Tuesday, July 12 Funchal Made a general examination of the sea- shore, both on foot and in boats. It is invariably rocky, either by ledges or large clean boulders and small pebbles; -- no sand or mud occurring. Among the smaller pebbles at a slight depth a Nereis occurred, but no other worms, though so abundant, on every sandy sea- sure, occurred here above low water mark. The rocks and boulders between tide marks supported numerous specimens of a species of Patella, and one of Menodonta, with still greater numbers of a rough ash colored Purpura. A few