*8 OSBECK'S VOYAGE 



The 5 tli of April. 



iHiRTY-one tortoifes were caught lad night.- 



In the morning we went oh more on the 

 tight fide of the Crofs-bay. 



Afcenfion is an ifland which is fituated under 

 the 8th degree of latitude fouth of the equa- 

 tor, and 8°. 24'. from St. Helena in the great 

 Etbiopic Ocean, at a great diftance from the 

 continent. Its length is reckoned above a 

 Swedijh mile, and its breadth about half a 

 Siuedijh mile. The Portugueze gave it this 

 name becaufe they difcovered it on Afcenfion- 

 day. It is entirely uninhabited, and without 

 woods. The largeft turtles, or fea-tortoi-fes, 

 have their refidence on it, and are fometimes 

 caught by hundreds in one night. The Eu- 

 ropean mips on their return from the Eajl In- 

 dies feldom fail by this ifland without going on 

 fhore to catch as many turtles as they want ; 

 but they never come in fight of it on their go- 

 ing to thofe parts. 



The breakers on the fhore are very violent, 

 and would altonifh thofe who have never feert 



the 



