i6S OSBECK'S VOYAGE, 



The 25th July, 7 16' N. L. 



The Globulus is a little white fhell like a 

 waiflcoat -button. It is an univalve, very ele- 

 vated at the top, flat below,- and has depreffed 

 rays on both fides. The worm which lived in 

 it lay in a circle towards the fpire, was very 

 narrow, and was in length a ringer's breadth : 

 had two fetaceons horns, and a filiform tail. 



The 30th July, 8° 59' N. L, 



Polo Candor, together with fome other ifles 

 in the neighbourhood, appeared to the left. 

 This ifle is inhabited, and belongs to the king 

 of Cambogia : it is fifteen leagues off Cambogia t 

 and its latitude 8° 40'. In the year 1746 the 

 fhip Calmar was obliged to winter near Polo 

 Candor. The chaplain, M. Ta?'fi/irccm, who 

 made the fir fh trial what a Szvedzjh naturaliir. 

 might expect from fuch voyages, died here, 

 on the 4th of December, and his funeral was 

 honoured by the firing of two guns. The 

 abovementioned fhip was forced to flay near 

 this ifland from the nth of October 1746, to 

 ihc 15th of April 1747, on account of con- 

 trary 



