M VOTAGB IN SEARCH 



lize is two centimeters: they arc terminated by 

 a tube which is half the length of their body. 



The fouth-cafi and fouth winds blew with {o 

 much obftinacy, that we were not able to 

 rois the equator till the 28th; about eleven 

 o'clock at night, in the longitude of 2 6 weft, 

 while il had been propofed to crofs it 8 or io 

 more to the eaftward. 



It is not ufual, at this epoch, to experience, 



in thefe parts, winds which hang fo long to the 



tbuth ami fouth-eaft ; for, the fun being already 



far advanced in the tropic of Capricorn, the gc- 



al winds commonly draw to the eaftward. 



ic lix or eight miles which we had been 

 daily carried to the northward when we were 

 detained by the calms, and the fwell that came 

 from the (buth and ibuth-eaft, brought us ac- 



linted with the unexpected conftancy of thefe 

 winds. 



tljermomcter obferved at noon, for the 



' week, had not ftood at more than 22*, and 



jucntly 21 , although we were very near the 

 equator : it is aftonifhing to fee, that, at fo fmall 



iiftance from the line, this inftrument did not 



licatc a greater degree of heat : but, betides 

 tlie general < nulls, l'uch as the pervioufnefs of 

 th of the fea to the fun's rays, the little 



denfity of the water, and its evaporation, which 

 hinder the atmofphcre from imbibing as much 



heat 



