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large fifties, and even fliips, to the bottom of 

 which it nicks when it is tired of fwimming. Wc 

 law feveral of them alongfide, which went from 

 time to time and faftcned themfelves to ours. 



During the night we fell in with a numerous 

 fhoal of dolphins, which followed our vcflel : 

 as they made a much more rapid progrefs 

 than us, they feveral times ran round the ftiip, 

 fwimming with great velocity. It was eafy to 

 follow them with the eye, although the night was 

 very dark ; for they left behind them a luminous 

 trace : this phofphoric light, which was produced 

 by the agitated tea-water, was the more brilliant 

 as the dark nets incrc afed, and as the filh advanced 

 with greater fwiftnefs : its courfe was then per- 

 fectly diftinguilhablc, even at feveral meters 

 below the furface of the water. 



On the 30th, we were in the feas where are 



met with the ws fifhes, fuch as the bonito, 



tunny, and others of the fame genus, which 



lind an abundant fubfiftence in purfuing 



us forts of filhes, and in particular the 



ilying-fiih ws voKtant, Linn.). The 



bonitocs, which followed us, furTered themfelves 



willi the bait thrown out to them 



by our liflicrincn ; this, however, was nothing 



more than a few feathers Lo difpolcd, that they 



exhibited to the eyes of this animal the ap- 



-nee of a liying-filh, and concealed the hook. 



We 



