166 TO RE EN'S VOYAGE. 



LETTER II. 



BETWEEN Africa and Madagafcar we 

 found an animalcule in the water, which, 

 whilfl: living in that element, refembled a 

 worm ; but when it was taken out and laid on 

 a plate with water, all its articulations came 

 afunder, and each moved by itfelf. We like- 

 wife caught a By-tbe-wind-failor d {Holothuria 

 ■phyfalis). Befides this, we likewife took an 

 unufual fea animal of a {limy fubftance, which 

 is difficult to defcribe, of which Mr. Braad 

 has probably fent you a drawing. 



We had already feen Madagafcar, Majfota, 

 Mobilla, and the high Comaro,. not without a 

 longing defire of getting on more; when we 

 arrived in the North-bay of St. Joanna, on the 

 1 6th of Augufl. 



This country feems to be one of the mod 

 agreeable on the whole earth : and not only 

 myfelf, but likewife far more experienced 



d This is the name which the Swdts give to this kind of 

 Holothuria. F« 



I travellers 



