A Vayage to JAMAICA. ie: 
object againft the eating of a new Fifh in che We/f-Zndies, for there are cer- 
tainly fome of them, which. if eaten, prove poifonous at fome feafons of the 
Year, at leaft many People have told me fo. 
If this be the Fith {poke of by Lact, p. 27. where he calls it Pifcis congro 
forma fimilis venenatus ; he {ays twas venemous both to Dutch and Englifh. 
After two or three days Calm, being carried Weft with rouling Seas, on 
the Sixth we had about the Tropick a {mall North-Eafterly Gale, which be- 
gan low, rifing by degrees till it came to a pretty ftrong Wind, and was fixed 
for a-while between North and Eaft, being concluded by the Seamen to be 
the Trade-Wind, which blows not always from the fame Point, but generally Of the 
on the North-fide of the Equinodtial within this Tropick; in this Seait blows 7°4¢eWind. 
between North and Eaft, though at feveral times of the Year ’tis ufually 
more Southerly or Northerly according to the Suns place in the Zodiack. Nei- 
ther does this Trade-Wind keep the fame Point, but varies every hour, 
though thofe two Points are ufually the urmoft bounds: neither is the Trade- 
Wind conftantly of the fame vehemence, but fometimes blows very hard, 
though rarely Stormy ; and at other times very eafic, though feldom Calm. 
There is very {eldom Rain with this Wind, though when it comes the Drops 
are thick, and it is violent. ‘The Weather here was generally clear, though 
fometimes Hazy, efpecially about the Horizon, the Zenith being feldom over- 
clouded. 
We had feveral days without any remarkable matter happening, fave that 
flying-Fifhes were here very frequent: the Defcription and Figure of which is 
common in moft Natural Hiftorians, therefore I fhall not fay more, only that 
itis a kind of Herring with very large Fins, with which it can fly fome time of Flying- 
in the Air when purfued by Dolphins, Boneto’s, dc. and that it is taken notice Fifhes. 
of by Voyagers, and Natural Hiftorians as follows, to me it feems to deferve 
the name of Harengus Alatus. 
Flying-Fifhes of Cocks. Purchas, 398. Of Beft. ib. p. 466. Purchas, 37. 
Pefci Rondini-di Col. f: 32. Fdirundo Salviani, p. 185. Volatiles Pifces, Laet. 
p- 572. Bokery, a¥Flying-Fith of Duddeley, 576.  HYirwndo, Bellon, p.193. Mugil 
Alatus Rondelet. p.r67. Fernand.p.87. Flying-Fifhes of Cliffe, Hakl. part. 3. 
p. 750. Of Ligon. p. 4. Of Terry, p. 11. Hirundo Salviani, quoad iconem. 
Willughdy, Tab. P. 4. Poiffons Volans de Cauche,p.140. De Lambert. p. 42. | Abn 
beville, p. 30,31. Peces que bolan Lop. de Gom. cap. gt. Pirabebe 2. Pifon. ed. 
1658. p. 6t. Flying-Fifhes of an Anomymns, Portugal in Brafile, Purchas, lib. 7. 
cap. 1. p. 1314. Of Mandelflo, p. 196. and 211. Of Hawkins Hakl. p. 520. 
Sit Rich. Hawkins, p. 42- Of Drake, p. 732. Hakl. p. 3. Of Fobn Davis, 
Purchas, 132. Of Layfield, ib. 1197. Poiffons Volans de Rochef. p. 183. de 
Dw Tertre, 212. de Feynes, p.205. Du Molinet. p.2x05. Dw Pyrard. de la Val. 
p.6. Linfchot. Defer. Pefcados Boladares, de Oviedo, lib. 13. cap.r. and cap.5. 
Folatori ejufd. fum, p. £32. who is of Opinion they are not. the Golondrinos of 
the Spanifh Seas, at leaft he faw themi not in thofe Seas ; they. fly Two hun- 
dred Paces, and when their Fins are dry fall down. They fly fomevimes;on 
one, fometimes on the other fide: and are purfued and taken by Gilsheads, 
and out of the Water by Sea Mews and Cormorants, id. fum 90 3 
~ They came on Board our Ship every where between the Tropicks, flying 
out of the Water and lighting thereon by accident. ‘They are very good Vi- 
Ctuals, tafting like a Frefh-Herring’ They are common in moft parts of the 
Fat and Weft-Indiess in Fapan, and the Mles Ladroncs, where they are eaten. 
They are fometimes more in one place of the Sea than another, for. Oviedo 
who crofs’d''the Seas‘many times to the Wef-Zndics, tells us that the Seas 
are like Provinces, fome are Fertile in Fifhes, others not, according to the 
Winds : 
They 
