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not far purfue them. They ate likewife invited to the Waters Sur 
throwing any thing vpon it, they being voracious. 
oi a Ship, ‘becaule of what {craps are now and then thrown over Board; or 
the Barnacles growing to the Ships fides, infomuch that I have been aflured b 
fome who have failed in Guinea Ships, that they have had the fame Sholes of 
Doiphins follow them for many hundreds of Leagues between Guinea and Bar- 
badocs 5 and Sir Richard Hawkins, in-his Obfervations takes notice, that in fome 
Voyages they had followed his Ships a Thoufand Leagues, although they 
had ftrokes at them, and mark’d them {everal times with their Irons, by which 
marks they knew them to be thefameDolphins. Buttel apud Purchas, likewile 
teils us that aShole of Dolphins follow’d their Ship Thirty Days from S. Tome 
Lo Brefile, And hence, it may be, it was this Fifh was thought by-fome to be the. Dol- 
phin of the Ancients, and to be enamouredof Men, One thing very remarkable 
in-this Fh, is the various Colours it puts. on before it. dies, being ufu- 
ally Yellow, with ranges oc rowsof ‘mall Blue, and round {pots; which 
very flrangcly change, and afford that pleafure to the Eyes, that I con- 
fels I never fay any thieg of this Nature {o furprizing ; but after ail it comes 
toa very light Blue Colour when Dead, which it keeps ever after. In this 
property it is like the Chameleon, and this appearance {eems very much to 
cepend on the firength or motions of the Spirits, and Fluids, unto. or! from 
the Skia, by which its Surface is altered fo.as to make thofe feveral Pheno 
amend. ddfartens tells us when Maccarel are alive they alfo: give fine Colours. 
In the Dolphia we took, there was a Flying-Fith in its Belly, which wasin part 
sigefled. The Fith its {elf when made ready was dry, though pretty good 
Vidluals, amd well tafied. TDhe mearer the Head the more’tis priled, altho 
} am apt tothink, chat if this Fith, fo much commended by Sailers, were a 
Shore ina Market, where other Fifh were to be had, it would not be counted 
fo great a cclicacy. There is adefcription .of it in Mr.Willughty’s Book of 
Fithes, and a Figure, Zab. 0.2: which was taken’whem that Fifth was dying, 
with the various {pots and colours on it : whereas that.of Pifo under the 
name of Guaracapewa and Fo. de Lacts, was taken when the Fifinwas quite dead. 
This is the Dorade of Lery, and moft of the French Voyagers, and the Dol- 
phin of our Exglifh, and Dutch Seamen; and Sir Richard: Hawkins calls it 
the Dorado of the Spaniards. Although Psfo fays that it leaps out of the 
Water after the manner of Porpefles; yet TI never could obferve that, unlefs 
very fclaom when having purfu'd Flying-Fifhes to the Surface of the Water, 
they give a {mall leap to take them in the Air. « It may very well be'the HHip- 
purus Of Rowdelerius, it having all the marks of his imperfect defcription, 
though his Figure be not good. 
It is the Dolphin of Drake Hakl. Part. 3. p. 732. OF Cliffe ib. p. 750. Of 
Efcarbot Nova Francia, p.35. Of Hudfon Purchas, p.588. Of Ligon, p. 4.6. 
— OF Fokn Davis Purchas, p.132. Of Battell wa. p.970. Of Fo. dos Sanctos, ib. 
p. 1546. Dorade de Rochef. 186. de Dutertre, 212. Giltheads of Oviedo [um, 
p24. Lippurus Rovdeletii Gen. Willuchbp.r13.Tab.0.2. Guaracapema Bra 
filienfitus, Marcgr ed.i648. p.160. Guaracapema, Pifon.p. 48.4. 1658. Pefci 
jndorati di Col. f..32- A delicately coloured Fifh pleafant to ‘look on, of Ra- 
wolfe, cap.t. Ltippuris Rondeletii, ip.r55. Dorada War akapemme, Lact. p. 57%. 
Dorades of Anonym. Port. Purchas, p.1313- An Aureus Pifcis, Fernandez, 
7.872 Dorade de Ravencan de Laffan. p.i71. De Lery, deCauche, p. sgt Ab 
beville, p. 3°. An Dauphins, Fjafd.ib? Dorado of the Spaniards of Sit Rich. 
ttamkins, p. 42. Dorado of Mandelflo, p.196. Where it feems to be Con- 
founded with a Dolphin. Daurade de Pyrard. de la Val. p.137. A Dolphin 
OF Ainrkins,Alakl. p.5x0. ‘OF Boyle of Airsp.179. -Of Terry, p. 10. 
tace by 
They love the Company 
Of Dolphins. 
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