CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 9 
accompanied us from the Channel, and it did not disap- 
pear finally until the 23d, when Cape Finisterre, the nearest 
land, was 200 miles. distant. On the 25th we passed the 
parallel of this cape, nearly at the same distance. 
We now shaped a course for the west end of Madeira, 
and a pleasant breeze from the N.E. impelling us forward 
50 to 60 lea gues aday, we made that island at day-light on 
the 31st, our approach to it on the preceding days being 
denoted by the wind veering to the west, with frequent 
squalls and showers of rain, and by the numbers of logger- 
head turtles (Testudo caretta) seen asleep on the surface of 
the sea. One of these animals was taken up by the Congo 
with many clusters of barnacles adhering to the shell ; they 
consisted of two species, the Lepas anatifera, and Lepas mem- 
branacea. ‘The first floating mollusca were also seen on ap- 
proaching Madeira, and as the scientific gentlemen were 
now pretty well recovered from their sea sickness, and the 
weather was warm and fair, Fahrenheit’s thermometer at 
noon being 63°, the tow-net was put overboard, and col- 
jected some of these animals, all of the Vellela genus. 
Passing Madeira to the west at ten leagues distance, we 
steered for Palma, which, at day-light on the 2d of April, was 
in sight; running along its west side at the distance of six 
Jeacues, we observed the summit of the Caldera mountain 
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