A\) CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
during the nights constant faint lightning without thunder. 
Many porpoises (Delphinus phocena), flying fish, and 
tropic birds were now seen, and a swallow rested on the 
yards when 250 miles distant from the land. From 
the 15th to the 19th the sea represented a continual succes- 
sion or riplings, and on trying the current with a boat, 
it was found to set to the S. E, at the rate of 3 of a mile an 
hour, nearly agreeing with our chronometers. 
The towing net, which was kept constantly overboard, gave 
us for the first me on the 18th, great numbers of perfect- 
ly diaphanous crustacea, resembling insects of glass ; they 
were of four different species, and considered by Dr. Smith, 
as belonging to the genus Scyllarus. (La Marc,* p.156.) We 
also took a small squalus, of a species new to us, and which 
from the form of its teeth may be named Squalus serrata. 
On the 19th the first deluge of rain was experienced in’a 
heavy squall from N. E., and was the commencement of that 
succession of squalls, calms, and rains, which would seem 
to be entailed as an everlasting curse on this region of the 
Atlantic ; in consequence of which, from this time tll we 
passed the meridian of Cape Palmas, our progress was ex- 
ceedingly slow, never exceeding 40 miles a day, and some- 
times making no progress at all. The winds, when there 
* Similar crustacea were taken during the rest of the passage in greater or less 
numbers until we made the continent of Africa. 
