raS OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



The 14th of April, 5 16' Southern Latitude. 



The wind called the fiidh-eajl trade-wind 

 was of great ufe to us at this time. This 

 wind has this name becaufe it blows from the 

 fouth-eaft, or nearly, all the year long. It 

 forwards the ihips on the fide of America very 

 much, till Ui.cy get a weft wind at about twen- 

 ty-two degrees of fouthern latitude, which 

 carries them on Mill farther. 



April the 26th. 



About half an hour after nine we parted 

 the tropic of Capricorn. We faw flying-fillies 

 (Exoccctus volitans). 



May the 2d, 31 19' S.L. 



Malmucks was the name given to a fort 

 of brown gulls, with fhort wings and white 

 bellies, which flew about the fhip ; and we 

 faw them afterwards in other places, but were 

 never able to catch one of them. 



The 



