8 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



sufficiently proves that the humidity of the cHmate is not 



unhealthy. 



The wind at length coming to the north, we weighed 

 once more, (19th) and at last cleared the Channel, passing 

 Scilly at the distance of 15 leagues. On opening the 

 Lizard, we suddenly, from a very smooth water, got into 

 a heavy swell from N.W., with a cross sea; the swell 

 doubtless proceeding from the late westerly gales, and 

 the cross sea from the meeting of the tides of the two 

 channels at the Land's-end, for as we en creased our distance 

 from the land, the waves subsided, and the sea became 

 more regular. 



When abreast of Scilly the wind came to the east, and 

 we now found that the transport rolled so heavily going 

 before it, as to be most uncomfortable even to seamen, 

 while the Naturalists became most grievously sea-sick ; in 

 order to remedy this rolling, as far as was noAv possible, 

 all the lumber stowed in the boats on deck was got out of 

 them ; but this had little effect, the cause being either in 

 the ship herself, or in some vice in the stowage of the hold, 

 we were therefore obliged to submit to this discomfort, by 

 which we could neither take our meals, sleep, walk the 

 deck, or even sit down to write with any satisfaction. 



The common gull (Larus canus) was the only bird that 



