44 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



the Chtnefe, becaufc they confider them as 

 powerful apbrodiiiac. 



The heat was intolerable when there was not 

 a breeze ; the thermometer, however, indicated 

 but 23 above o ; though we were no more 

 than 9 to the northward of the equator, and in 

 the longitude of 20 5c/ eaft. It fhould fecm 

 that in thefc Iras the thermometer is a very in- 

 correcl meafurc of the fenfible heal; for, al- 

 though it ltood at fome degrees below what it 

 frequently indicates in Europe' in a fine feafon, 

 xperienced, not the lefs, an exceffive per- 

 fpiration, which produced fome very trouble- 

 fome eruptions. 



The mercury in the barometer does not, as is 

 well known, undergo much variation between 

 the tropics: the greateft did not exceed 1 linef. 

 It varied little from the height of 28 inches 

 2 lines, although we had had fome very great 

 florins, which, being formed on the continent of 

 Africa, from which we were almoft at the dif- 

 tance of lixty myriamc re brought to us 



by north-eaft and eaft-north-cail winds. 



On the 1 2th, we caught the fifh known to 

 ichthyologifts by the name of bal'ijles verruco/us. 

 were furrour. grampul'cs, which 



were foil- in their flow progrefs, by marks 



attracted by their excrements, 



A heavy 



