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{warn behind, or along fide of the fhip was 

 very flow, and gave a fair opportunity to 

 hit them with the harpoon, though fome 

 are taken with a hook and line, and a bait 

 of chicken bowels, fmall fifh, or pieces 

 of his own fpecies, or the flying fifh, which 

 latter are their chief food : and it is by 

 their chafing them, that the flying fifh leave 

 their element to find fhelter in one to which 

 they are flrangers. The Dolphins fome- 

 times leap a fathom out of the water, and 

 love to fwim about cafks and logs of wood, 

 that fometimes drive in the fea. They are 

 eaten with thick butter, when boiled, and 

 fometimes fried, and afford a palatable food, 

 but rather fomewhat dry. In the bellies of 

 the fifh. of this fpecies which we caught, fe- 

 veral animals were found, viz. an O/iracion; 

 a little fifh with blue eyes, which was yet 

 alive, being juft the moment before fwal- 

 lowed, and meafuring two inches in length ; 

 another little fifh ; a curious marine infect, 

 and a flying fifh, all which not yet being 

 damaged by digeftion, I preferved in fpirits. 

 The Flying Fijh (Exocoetus vo/itans, Linn. J 

 are always feen in great fhoals, fometimes 

 of an hundred or more getting at once out 

 of the water, being purfued by greater fifh, 

 and chiefly by Dolphins ; they rife about a 

 yard, and even a fathom above the water 



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