io8 O SB ECK'S VOYAGE. 



the beginning of the eclipfe, which hindered 

 our obfervations till three quarters part five 

 o'clock, when the moon covered two thirds of 

 the fun, after which the iky prefently became 

 cloudy. 



The 9th of May, 19 . 20'. N. L. 



In the night we were paft the fun (for fo 

 the failors call the fun's paffing through the 

 Zenith) for which reafon we could make no 

 obfervations to-day, though it was fair. In the 

 afternoon the wind grew changeable and calm. 

 Tunnies', bonets, and flying-fijhes were ftill 

 caught as in the lafl week. The fea-weed 

 which fwam by us, and had been obferved 

 yefterday, was a fore-runner of the fo much 

 wi filed for Grafs-fea. '• 



Some of our people fuifered a great deal 

 from head-aches : fome of them thought that 

 the complaint arofe from the fmoaked tunnies 

 and bonets ; and remembered that when they 

 were on board The S$ueen, where they had the 

 fame food, they fuffered by the fame diforder. 



We now again obferved a Tropick-bird. 



The 



