134 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



whitifh fpots ; but at the extremity of an 

 orange colour : the under fide of the upper, 

 and both fides of the lower wings, have black 

 lines: the antenna are blackilh, prifmatic, and 

 have a brown fpot on the point : the eyes 

 are large and black : the back of the thorax 

 is marked with a blackiih brown figure like a 

 ikull : the body is black below, with orange 

 rings : it is marked at top with rings of black 

 changing into blue: the feet are fhaded black 

 and brown ; and their fpines, which fling like 

 nettles, have the fame colour : this Sphinx has 

 a ftrong fpiral tongue. When caught, it made 

 a noife fomething like a bird. 



At half an hour after four in the afternoon 

 we failed, and about fix o'clock we dropped the 

 anchor at ten fathoms depth, in a blue fancly, 

 clayey ground. 



The ifland called Acrofs the way wa? now N. 

 N. W. and Angeri S. by E. We faw two 

 fires on the coall of Java. 



July the 1 6th. 



For the greateft part, calm and fine weather. 



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