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about the fize of a wood pigeon, with a ihort thick 

 neck, a fmall head, the whole plumage white, and a 

 long tail in the form of a rabijunco or ruih, half an 

 inch diameter near the body, tapering its whole length 

 till it terminates in a point, whence it was called Rabi- 

 juncos. Thcfe birds are never feen above eight or ten 

 leagues from the ihore. 



From the time we firft faw the Dorado and Bonito, 

 the laft increafed in numbers as our latitude diminiflied. 

 We now alio faw the Tunny, and a great many flying 

 fiih. We caught fome of all kinds; and here it is not 

 unworthy notice, that the Bonitos and Tunny-fiih bite 

 only from day-break till about ftven in the morning, 

 and again in the evening from fun-fet till' dark. 



CHAP. II. 



Nautical Ohfervations and Remarks on the Voyage round 

 Cape Horn. 



P^ROM the time of our fleering weft, being in the 

 latitude of the ifland, till we vvere under its me- 

 ridian, we failed 5 deg. 4 min. and a half, though all 

 on board, who had kept an account of the fhip's way, 

 imagined we vvere to the weftward of itj but the va- 

 riation of the needle convinced us, that our reckoning 

 was not to be depended on, and that the ihip was 

 much farther to the eaftward than we imagined; an 

 error owing principally to the motion of the currents, 

 which had drawn us at fuch a great diftance from the 

 land ; ail the French pilots on board the Delivrancc 

 agreed in this particular; and fome related, that when 

 they thought themfelves near the land, they had often 

 found the ihip above three hundred leagues to the eaft- 

 ward of their reckoning. 1 did not, however, make 

 any correction in my journal on this account; for 



which 



