io6 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



The i ft of May, 8°. 57'. N. L. 



Clear weather. Frefli trade wind. 



Flying-fish (Exoccetus votttans), which 

 were three or four inches long, and foraewhat 

 different from the Exoccetus of Artedi, were 

 caught here. The membrana branchiojlega has 

 eight, the dorfalfin four, the pecloralfins 

 twelve or fifteen, the ventral-fins, which are 

 in the middle between the peroral and the 

 anal-fins, have fix, the anal-fin nine, and the 

 tail nineteen, rays ; thofe of the tail are very 

 (mall. 



Some tunnies were caught, whofe bellies 

 were quite empty. 



The 2d of May, io°. 6'. N. L. 



Clear weather. Frefh trade wind. 



Bonets, tunnies, and fiying-fijhes were' 

 feen in great numbers. In a tunny we found 

 a narrow, white full, feven inches and a half 

 long, which the failors call the Chinefe Garter. 



It 



