2T0 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



painful. Wc had only a bottle a day each roan ; 

 yet our wants augmented in proportion as wc 

 advanced towards the torrid zone. We could 

 not replace this beverage by the ule of the wine, 

 which daily became worfe ; befides, the brandy, 

 which fcveral already preferred to wine, made 

 them require a greater allowance of water : the 

 fait meat we lived on ftill more increafed our 

 thirn, which we had not the means to quench; 

 and the extraordinary quantity of fait introduced 

 into our humours, had communicated to them 

 an extreme acrimony ; and indeed tlie want of 

 water is one of the principal caufes of the difor- 

 ders of feame?). 



Some pintadoes, and many other birds, which 

 we faw on the 6th of June, in latitude 34 47' 

 fouth, and longitude 159 28' eaft, made us pre- 

 fume that we were in the neighbourhood of 

 fome ifland, yet too far diftant, no doubt, to be 

 perceived. 



On the nth, about the middle of the day, 

 we thought that we difcovered land to the eaft- 

 ward. After having fteered in that direction 

 for an hour, the phantom difappeared, and we 

 immediately refumed our courfe. 



A man-of-war bird, having come and hovered 

 over our fhip, was killed by a mufket fhot. 

 This bird had itill in its bill the fpecics of cuttle- 

 fifli called fcpla loligo. The man-of-war bird 



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