66 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



We difcovered a whale in our neighbour- 

 hood, by its throwing up the water. 



The 3d of February., ^5°. 44'. S. L. 



Larv a fenejlrata, which I found the 13th 

 of September of the paft year on the Croton 

 febiferuniy and which changed a fecond time 

 the next following night, now got out of its 

 grave, where it had been near five months, 

 and became Fhalama Atlas Linn, as far as I 

 could fee, though it was very ill fhaped. 



Dermestes fubrotunda atra was bufy in 

 eating the D eontfai-feed which I bought in 

 China. As foon as it had eaten the kernel, the 

 empty hufk j.u(l fitted it : and accordingly I 

 found fome time after each of them dead in. its 

 huik. 



The 6th of February, 1 8°, 50'. S. L. 



Clear weather. Fr elh gale* 



I had no thermometer; but the leaves of 

 Camellia and of the Batatas fhewed that it was 



colder 



