to OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



hlaria dire&ly oppofite Cadiz, and Rota fur 

 ther on towards the fea. 



The Quarantine-boat (or pra&ic-boat, as 

 the Swedes call it) was a floop covered with 

 green, which was rowed by twelve men, and 

 in it were two or three gentlemen of the col- 

 lege of health in Cadiz. After the Hoop had 

 joined our veffel, they afked whence the fhip 

 came ? what was her name, and that of her 

 captain \ how many men fhe had ? he. The 

 anfwers they received were written down upon 

 paper. We Iikevvife (hewed them our {hip's 

 journal, and told them that they would find in it 

 the name and manner of the death of a man that 

 was killed by a fall. They took the journal with 

 them on more, in order to fhew it to the col- 

 lege ; but firft ordered up to let none go out 

 of the fhip before they had obtained leave : 

 for this reafon we put a goofe upon our fore- 

 top-maft, which is a fign of a (hip's keeping 

 the quarantine. 



January the 13th, and the following days. 



I saw on-board a Swedifk fhip fomeorfelle, 



or oricelle (Lichen roccella), a fpecies of mofs 



5 which, 



