ri2 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



it has but one joint or nail ; the lafl articula- 

 tions of the toes are hooked (hamq/i.) 



This bird makes a noife like a parrot, and 

 throws up train oil when touched. It is 

 caught without any trouble, with fome tarred 

 ilring, or a piece of lard on the fifhing-rod. 

 They are feldom eaten, and only in great ne- 

 eeffity. We once boiled and tailed fome of 

 them, but they were extremely oily. 



The two congeries of flats, of which the 

 one which is near the Fohis eclipticce is called 

 Nubecula major , and the other Nubecula minor, 

 are well known to our Eafl India navigators f . 

 They obferve how the one, which appears at 

 night lower on the horizon, gradually mounts 

 up higher than the other ; and from this they 

 can tell the hour of the night on the fouth 

 iide of the Line, as our common people can 

 by the turning of the Great Bean 



May the 6th, 34 S. L. 



We were obliged to drefs in our winter 

 cloaths, for the cold was no lefs intenfe than 



f Our failor§ call them the Magellanic clouds. 



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