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CHAPTER HI. 



BAHIA TO THE CAPE. 



A Shower of Butterflies. — Bahia de Todos os Santos. — Excursion into the Forest. — 

 San Salvador. — Hospitality of the English Residents. — Dredging in Shallow Wa- 

 ter in the Bay. — A Case of Yellow Fever and our Consequent Abrupt Departure. 

 — Fungia sipmnetnca. — Tristan d'Acunha. — Inaccessible Island. — Story of the 

 Stoltenhoffs. — The Birds of Inaccessible Island. — The Habits of the Penguin. — 

 Nightingale Island. — Subsequent History of Tristan d'Acunha. — Voyage to the 

 Cape of Good Hope. — We leave the Atlantic. 



Appendix A. — Table of Temperatures observed between Bahia and the Cape of Good 



Hope. 

 Appendix B. — Table of Serial Soundings down to 200 fathoms, taken between Bahia 



and the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Appendix C. — Specific-gravity Observations taken between Bahia and the Cape of 



Good Hope during the Months of September and October, 1873. 



We trawled again on the 11th in 1715 fathoms, and this hanl 

 gave, along with a characteristic assemblage of the ordinary 

 deep-sea invertebrates, a specimen of Euplectella siiberea., a spe- 

 cies which we met with first off Cape St. Yincent, and a small 

 Tlmbellularia ', and on the 12tli we had two fairly successful 

 hauls in 1200 fathoms. Our coal was now almost entirely ex- 

 pended, so the engines were stopped, and on the 13th we crept 

 along toward Bahia under all plain sail. 



On the morning of the 14tli of September we were steaming 

 along the Brazilian coast toward the entrance of the magnifi- 

 cent Bahia de Todos os Santos. All day a pretty little but- 

 terfly of the delicately formed genus Heliconia was fluttering 

 in multitudes over the ship, and over the sea as far as the 

 eye could reach they quivered in the air like withered leaves. 

 Their number must have been incalculable ; looking up into the 



