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be an enormous difference in their sizes. The tunny- 
fish arriving at the weight of 8 to 12 ewt. while the largest 
albicore I have ever seen taken in the Atlantic weighed but 
160lbs. and the most common weight was between 30 and 
40lbs. and these latter were evidently full grown fish. 
On the 11th we had full moon, and the same day and the 
next, such heavy rains fell, that I feared the wet season had 
already set in to the north of the line, we being on this day 
in 22° N. and14° EK. Bya rain guage made on board, we 
found that, on the morning of the 12th, between 1 and 
4 o'clock, the water that fell from the heavens was equal to 
32; inches. On this day died Joseph Burgess, seaman, of 
the Congo ; on opening him, his death was found to have 
been occasioned by a disease of the heart caused by the 
ancient rupture of a blood vessel, 
Though the rains lasted but two days, seven of the trans= 
port’s crew were already attacked by fevers, more or less 
serious, all of which were to be traced to their sleeping on 
the wet decks, and to the neglect of changing themselves 
after being exposed to the rain during the day. The almost 
inevitable bad consequences of carelessness in these res- 
pects, may be estimated by the state of the thermometer at 
night in various parts of the ship. In the space called 
between deck, where the people slept, it was 88°, in my 
cabin 79° or 80°. On deck 73° to 77°. The great evapo- 
