•jz OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



The porpoifTes were obferved here tum- 

 bling about in great numbers. 



The failors affirmed to me that the water 

 flowered; when drawn up, fome-what in it 

 looked like the roe of a fim. I put fome of it 

 by in a glafs, which at night gave a pale blue 

 light, as if a million of little pearls lay clofe 

 together, but the next day the light was gone. 

 This matter fwam every where on the fea wa- 

 ter, with which it was mixed. By day-light 

 or candle-light it looked like a red, brown, 

 thick, /ago ibup ; and when it was put on pa- 

 per, it looked like little water-coloured /ago' 

 grains, or fiih-roe ; but I obferved no motion 

 in them. The next morning every thing was 

 funk to the bottom, and was curdled in the 

 glafs ; the water above it was quite clear, tho' 

 foraewhat reddifh. I again put fome of it on 

 paper, and found the grains water-coloured, 

 but the paper was ftained with red fpots from 

 the water. 



The next night we found ground with the 

 lead at ninety fathoms. We had now been 

 fixty-three days on our voyage from China* 



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