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is also low land, with a saddle hillock in the centre of the 
back ground. The whole of this land is covered with wood, 
but is proved to be inhabited by the numerous fires seen 
on the shore, and which were probably intended as signals 
for us to land. 
We now, while at anchor on a sandy bottom, took a 
good number of fish of the Sparus genus, named_ by: the 
seamen sea-bream, and light-horsemen, the latter, from a 
reddish protuberance on the back of the head (fancifully 
thought to resemble a helmet); they were taken with the 
hook close to the ground, and baited with fresh pork or their 
own livers; the largest weighed 18lbs., and though rather 
dry and insipid, were infinitely preferable to the albicore 
and bonito with which we had been surfeited in the gulf of 
Guinea. Sea birds had also entirely disappeared, with the 
exception of an occasional tropic bird, and a few of Mother 
Carey’s chickens (storm petterel). Numbers of insects of 
the genus T?pula were taken from the surface of the sea. 
The weather, though now much less damp than when we 
made the land to the north, was still very hazy, and the 
cold even encreased, the thermometer in the day never 
rising above 73°, and falling in the night to 67°. As the 
moon approached the full, the current diminished, and on 
the 24th a more favourable sea breeze than we had hitherto 
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