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Olí the fecond Qv/ after leaving the idand, we loft 

 fight of all birds of any kind, but faw great num- 

 bers of flying fiiTi and bonicos. On the 13th of 

 June in a clear night and fctded breeze at S. E. 

 without the leaf!: appearance of any difigreeable 

 change, we were furprized by a florai of wind and 

 rain, that all we could do was to bear up under our 

 courfes. It was indeed too violent to lail j and ac- 

 cordingly about an hour after the weather cleared up. 

 On the 15th we began again to fee Tunny-fiih in large 

 ihoals; and the 16th it was calm intermixed with 

 gende breezes and ihowers, till the 17th. The fame 

 weather continued the i8th and 19th, with now and 

 then thick clouds in the horizon, which we obferved 

 afterwards to go off in violent ihowers. 



On the soth of June in the lat. of 9 dsg. 28 min. 

 N. we faw a bird, the only one which had appeared 

 fince our departure from the iOand. It was fomething 

 larger than the Fárdela, of a dark brown colour, 

 except the brcaft and lower parts of the body, and 

 the wings remarkably long. On the 22d fqualls and 

 ihowers. On the 24th we faw great numbers of 

 Tunnies, flying fiih and cavallas, a fifh not unlike a 

 mackerel J and a bird of the fame kind as that we faw 

 on the 2 1 ft. 



On the 27th, being in 17 deg. 57 min. N. lar. 

 the fea was covered with a kind of weed called Sar- 

 gafo, which, pickled, is by many thought equal to 

 Samphire : and along this verdant furface our courfc 

 continued till the 7th of July, that is, till we were 

 in the lat. of 33 deg. 31 min. when litde of it was to 

 be feen. Whereas for fome days before dig whole 

 ocean within fight was, as it were, covered with it. 

 During this time we alfo iliw fome birds; but par- 

 ticularly in the afternoon of the 29th of June, and 

 on the 30ih in the morning. Some of thefe were of 

 a middling fize and of a dark brown colour; alfo 

 fome black Rabiahofcados ; and oa the morning of 



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