uS OSBE CK'S VOYAGE, 



wards continued to increafe on both eaft and 

 weft fide, fo that me was full about five 

 o'clock. Yet before the end of the eclipfe, 

 & fog, as the certain fore-runner of an immi- 

 nent florm, began to increafe more and more; 

 and the ftorm accordingly happened when the 

 fty was quite covered. 



At a great diflance from the {hip we faw 

 fome animals which were faid to be fca- lions ; 

 but I could not diftinguiih whether they were 

 fifti or bellua marina. According to the figure 

 of the fea-lion in Anfon's Voyage, it feems to 

 be a fpecies of feal. Thofe which that admi- 

 ral caught and ufed as provifion near the ifle 

 of Juan Fernandez were twelve or twenty feet 

 long, and eight or ten thick. 



June the 7th, 37 30' S. L. 



About eight o'clock at night we heard, at 

 feveral times, a deep and harfli noife. We 

 fuppofed this was the voice of fome large fim, 

 and perhaps of that which we faw the next 

 day. Some faid that they faw its way, and 

 that it fhone a little in the dark. This light 

 might probably arife from the violent motion 



which 



