22 -—« AVoyage to JAMAICA 
This Fifh is found in moft parts of the Hot Eaff and Weft-/ndies, in the 
South-Sea, and at the Maldives. | 
Wien we were about one hundred Leagues off the Ifland Madera, we had 
A Sparrow a {mall Sparrow-Hawk had been blown either by Storm, or otherwife from 
Sieh Land, he lighted on the Ship, and was fo faint and fecble that he droop’d his 
ee ne Wings and lock’d pitifully, he face on one of the Ropes, and would not flir 
ret off till we were juft going to take hold of him, and then he would remove to 
Leagues ae) | 
Tad fome other place, or go to fome other of the Ships. where he could be more 
fecure. 
We had the Winds variable when we were in 25°. North Latitude; whereas 
Tie place of in other Voyages other people have met with the Trade-Wind or Breeze in up- 
meeting the wards of Thirty Degrees; but from Friday the 28.Day of Od/ober to November 
Trade Wind. the 4 wehad South-Wefterly Winds, quite contrary to the Trade-Wind or 
Breeze, which may be fuppofed to come from the Suns being gone to the 
South this time of the Year, and probably if we had been in this Latitude, 
when the Sun had been in the Northern Signs of the Zodiack, we fhould have 
had the Eafterly Winds, as Seamen meet them, fometimes much to the North, 
without confidering the probable caufe ; but wondering at the variety 
produc’d by it. 
The Fourth and Fifth we had a great Calm in about 24°. 30’ North La- 
titude, withit a very great Sea, tumbling us from fide to fide of the Ship. 
The Tropice- The sth. of November we faw the Tropic-Bird, or Avis Tropicorum, flying 
Bird, very high round the Ship, they are very eafily known by two long Feathers 
in their Tails, the Icon and defcription in Mr. Willuzhbys Book of Birds is 
accurate, enough,: but to me it feems to berather of the Gull, than Duck kind. 
They are.common every where between the Tropicks, and rarely {een any 
where elfe, whence they have their name. ! 
They are ordinarily met with firft in the Voyage to the Weft-Indies, Three 
hundred and fifty Leagues off of Dominica, or Defeada, towards Spain, though 
in the third Voyage we made thither, we met with one in the mid-way be- 
tween Spain and the Canaries, which every one wondered to fee fo near Spain. 
Oviedo. I fuppofe this accident might have happened when the Sun was North of 
the Equinoctial, ‘and towards the Tropick of Cancer. 
The Feathers in the Tail are made ufe of as Ornamental by the Savages in 
their Hair and Noftrils. Du Tertre. 
This Bird is taken notice of by the following Writers. 
Bird with long Tail, of Feston or Ward, Hakl. part.3.p.767. Fetu en cul 
ow T oifeau de Tropic, de Du Tertre,p 276. Rabo di Giunco Col. f.29. 32. Rabo 
de Funco, de Oviedo, Hift. General, lib14. cap.1. Coda di Giunco Fjufdem ap. 
Ramuus, fol.t61. Aves alia rabos de Foncos ditte cauda-Funcea, Aldrov, Ornith. 
Tom.3.p. 544. The Tropic-Bird of Willughby, Angl. p. 231. Tab. 76. Of 
Smith Summer \fles, p. 171. Une efpece d Aigrette de Rochef. p. 165. White 
Birds having in their Tails but two long Feathers of Fo. Davis, Purchas, 133. 
Of Sharks, | Inthe Calms, all over thefe Seas, ’tis ordinary to have Sharks come about 
the Ships, we had fome often came to ours: feveral of the Seamen imme- 
diately, on their appearance, took great Fifhing-Hooks, with Iron Chains of 
a pretty length, faftened to a long and ftrong Line or Rope, and baited them 
with a picce of Salt Beef, or even Red Cloth, throwing it into the Sea in 
their fight. They come for the moft part immediately and {wallow it, the 
Seamen giving them Line to run where they pleafe, wearying and wafting 
themfelves Then the Seamen pull them near the Ships fide, and throw a 
Rope, with a Loop or a Noofe, into the Sea, put it about their Tails, and 
fo pull them out of the Water on Board, which never could be done, (with- 
out this help,) by the Hook or Line, becaufe of the great weight, and aoe 
made 
