*6 4 TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



On our approach to the tropick, \vc again 

 faw flying fifties. I mutt remark that all the 

 flying Mies which I faw eaitward of the Cape 

 had fhort pecloral-fins ; and their veniral-fins 

 were expanded while they flew, becaufe they 

 could not otherwife have prefer ved an equilu 

 brium. There is yet another fort of flying 

 filh, which has antenna s, and a veflel con- 

 taining an inky matter; but I cannot tell whe- 

 ther it is the Sepia loligo. 



This time we did not touch at 67. Helena , 

 but bore for the Ifland of Jfeenfion, where we 

 anchored the 6th of April. This country 

 has no other frefh water than what the rain 

 fometimes affords ; for which reafon it is dry 

 and barren, and only feems to be deftined by 

 Providence to be the habitation of ronoifes, 

 and to lerve as a placs of fomc refreshment for 

 feamen. Goats, pelicans, and many fea birds 

 breed here, notwitbftanding the intolerable 

 heat of the day, and the coldncfs of the night. 

 The few low ihores where we can land are 

 covered with a loofe pearl fand, in which the 

 tortoiies bury thai erg:- I did not fee how 



f Not a?itennoe ; but, as L.innam calls them, tcntaath. F. 



mtith 



