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two divergent branches perforated with holes, 

 placed in the fame manner in both, and thus 

 forming two flutes, which gave pretty nearly the 

 fame founds. The natives were very fond of 

 playing in unifon, and made ufc of one hand for 

 each branch. 



It was dark when I returned to the town ; th 

 fea in the roadflead afforded me abundance of 

 the fmall bodies which illuminated its furface, 

 under the form of large fheets of light. The 

 water that I took up- in the moft phofphoric 

 places, left on the ftrainer through which I 

 pafled it fmall molecules, in no refpect different 

 from thofe which T had already examined before 

 my arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, and in 

 other places at great diftar.ees from land. 



We landed on the coaft near the town at the 

 time of high water; we were obliged to wade in 

 the fea for upwards of three hundred meters, 

 our canoes not being able to approach nearer the 

 beach, on account of the fhoalnefs of the bot- 

 tom. The fifhermen had juft lighted fomc fires 

 to attract the fifties, which the flood had brought 

 up in fuch quantities, that we faw their nets 

 filled with them. 



The two following days were employed in 

 flrolling about the environs of the town. I was 

 furprifed to find on an ifland of fo fmall extent, 

 fuch a number of different fpecies of vegetables ; 



but, 



