8 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
sufficiently proves that the humidity of the climate is not 
unhealthy. 
The wind at length coming to the north, we weighed 
once more, (19th) and at last cleared the Channel, passing 
Scilly at the distance of 15 leagues. On opening the 
Lizard, we suddenly, from a very smooth water, got into 
a heavy swell from N.W., with a cross sea; the swell 
doubtless proceeding from the late westerly gales, and 
the cross sea from the meeting of the tides of the two 
channels at the Land’s-end, for as we encreased our distance 
from the land, the waves. subsided, and the sea became 
more regular. 
When abreast of Scilly the wind came to the east, and 
we now found that the transport rolled so heavily going 
before it, as to be most uncomfortable even to seamen, 
while the Naturalists became most grievously sea-sick ; in 
order to remedy this rolling, as far as was now possible, 
all the lumber stowed in the boats on deck was got out of 
them ; but this had little effect, the cause being either in 
the ship herself, or in some vice in the stowage of the hold, 
we were therefore obliged to submit to this discomfort, by 
which we could neither take our meals, sleep, walk the 
deck, or even sit down to write with any satisfaction. 
The common gull (Larus canus) was the only bird that 
