i 2 6 OSBECK'S VOYACxE. 



N. E. and the weftern N. N. W. We after- 

 wards failed along the coaft of Java, 



Some thoufands of porpeffes (JDelphinus 

 phocana) were playing about our fhip, and 

 made a great noife in leaping. They feemed 

 a yard and half long, and of a ferrugineous 

 colour : the tail is horizontal, and the dorfal 

 fin lacerated behind. 



The air was very cold here at firft, though 

 the climate is one of the hotted. This per- 

 haps may be occafioned by a draught of air 

 between the mountains. 



The country is covered, both vallies and 

 hills, with green trees, the reflexion of which 

 gives a green caft to the fea, even at a diftance 

 from land. The fun fhone very hot, fo that a 

 vapour rofe from the land like the fmoak 

 which is feen in our country when woods are 

 burnt down ; yet the air along the coaft was 

 very cold. 



July the 1 3th. 



Bubbi, from the EngUJh word booby, is a 

 fort of bird fo called by thofe of our nation 



who 



