i 7 o OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



Eqfi India failors are able to affert from their 

 own experience. 



The 31ft of July, io° 30' N. L. 



Polo Zapata (which is called a lajl by the 

 Swedes from its figure) appeared, being a 

 little, naked, white, high rock, in the open 

 fea. 



Near this rock are a great number of 

 birds ; and by catching one of them, upon our 

 return from China, we found that it was Ster- 

 na Jlolida grifea, capite albo. The boobies 

 Were plentiful here. I likewife caught a Pha- 

 lana feticornis fpin Unguis , alis planis, fuperio- 

 ribus coeridefcejitibus, maculis luteis : the 

 body, wings, and feet were white : the head 

 green : the tongue ferrugineous. 



The Mill beetles {Blatta orientalis Linn.l) 

 annually come in mips from the Eaji In- 

 dies. I was told that when the fhip Gothen- 

 burgh, returning from China, foundered on a 

 rock not far from the fortrefs Elfsborg, and 

 the wet tea was carried to be dried in the 

 ovens in the town, thefe infects came thither 



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