538 A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



the lad day we alfo faw feveral rabijiincos. On the 

 ift of July we again had fight of the above-mentioned 

 brown birds, but without any of the other two 

 fpecies: and on the 3d, being in 27 deg. 34 min. 

 latitude, and 32 deg. 27 min. E. of Conception, we 

 faw no kind of large fifli, though abundance of the 

 flying fifh. 



On the 8th, being in 34 deg. 31 min. latitude, wc 

 again had fight of the Dorados; and likewife faw a 

 middle- fized bird all black, which for a long time 

 continued hovering about the (hips. On the 9th in 

 the evening, we were furprifed with the appearance 

 of a fmall whale; and on the loth in the morning, 

 being in the latitude 36 deg. 57 m.in. and 31 deg. 

 6 min. E. of Conception, we faw feveral birds of a, 

 middling fize, with long and broad wings, the neck, 

 head and tail black, and the other parts of the body 

 white. 



UN the 10th, being in 36 deg. 57 min. latitude, 

 and 32 deg. 6 min. E. of Conception, by my 

 reckoning, according to which, and likewife in the 

 Dutch and common French chart, the ifland of Flo- 

 res, one of the Azores, lay E. N. E. 2 deg. N. dif- 

 tance 112 leagues. In the French chart are fet 

 down fome iflands, which, as being of later difco- 

 very, do not occur in the Dutch : among thefe is 

 Santa Ana bearing weftward five leagues j but by 

 the new French chart, the ifland of Flores lay E, N. E. 

 5 deg. eafterly, and at the diftance of 167 leagues. 

 All this morning we had a cockling fea coming 

 from the N. W. and by W. which we conjc£lured 

 might proceed from the proximity of the ifland of 

 Sanra Ana, as by our reckoning it muft have been 

 very near us. 



On the 17th being in 41 deg. 49 min. latitude, 



and 36 deg. 48 min. E. of Conception, we were 



amulcd wiih the fight of vaft flights of birds, of a 



middling bigncfs, and of a brown colour intermixed 



6 with 



