...wary sea-birds had, evidently, all taken the alarm, and winged their way, home, by other routes. I was the more convinced of this, by an intercepted letter which I captured in the letter-bag of the Parke , which was written by the master of the ship, Asteroid, to his owner, and which ran as follows:— The Asteroid arrived off this port [Pernambuco], last evening, seventy-five days from Baker...