4 2 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



Chinefe call Taifun ; for (as I have been told 

 by a Swede who had been in the Eajl Indies) 

 it continues often for twenty-four hours toge- 

 ther with fuch violence, that nobody is able 

 to walk up and down, but is as it were confined 

 to his place. At lead it is always reckoned 

 the worft hurricane which can poffibly happen 

 on a voyage to the Eajl Indies. In May, June, 

 July, and Augujl, the wind is always fouthern 

 hereabouts, and generally attended with rain. 



The 8th of January, 15 . 45'. N. L. 



The Englifh Sand had thirty-fix fathoms of 

 water. The ground was red fand, mixed 

 with corals. 



The 10th of January, io°. 38'. N. L. 



Changeable weather, fometimes clear, 

 fometimes cloudy. The wind blew hard, and 

 the fea was very boifterous. About four 

 o'clock in the afternoon we had the ifland of 

 Zapata weft. 



Sterna nigra, fronte albicante, caudd cunei- 

 formi, (Chin. Lagerjlr. 9.) was here caught. It 



had 



