SECOND JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



From Liverpool to Pernambuco. Stormy petrels. Tropical zoology. 

 Flying-fish. Bonito, Albicore, and "Dolphin." Frigate bird. 

 Arrival at Pernambuco. The expelled Jesuit. Pombal, the Cap tain - 

 General. Southey's history of Brazil. Botanical garden. Sangred > 

 Buey. Eattlesnake. Narrow escape. Rainy. Sail for Cayenne. 

 Shark-catching. 



IN the year 1816, two days before the vernal equinox, I 

 sailed from Liverpool for Pernambuco, in the southern 

 hemisphere, on the coast of Brazil. There is little at this 

 time of the year in the European part of the Atlantic to 

 engage the attention of the naturalist. As you go down 

 the Channel you see a few divers and gannets. The 

 middle-sized gulls, with a black spot at the end of the 

 wings, attend you a little way into the Bay of Biscay. 

 When it blows a hard gale of wind the stormy petrel makes 

 its appearance. While the sea runs mountains high, and 

 every wave threatens destruction to the labouring vessel 

 this little harbinger of storms is seen enjoying itself, on 

 rapid pinion, up and down the roaring billows. When 

 the storm is over it appears no more. It is known to 

 every English sailor by the name of Mother Carey's 

 Chicken. It must have been hatched in ^Eolus's cave, 

 amongst a clutch of squalls and tempests ; for whenever 



