CHAPTEE I 



ENGLAND TO KIO DE JANEIRO 

 AUG. 25 Nov. 13, 1768 



Departure Birds and marine animals Species of Dagysa Madeira Dr. 

 Heberden Madeira mahogany Wine - making Vines Carts Vege- 

 table productions Convent Chapel wainscoted with bones General 

 account of Madeira Peak of Teneriffe Marine animals Cross the 

 Equator Climate of tropics Luminous animals in the water Trade 

 winds Brazilian fishermen Sargasso weed Rio harbour. 



25th August 1768. Plymouth. After having waited in 

 this place ten days, the ship and everything belonging to 

 me being all that time in perfect readiness to sail at a 

 moment's warning, we at last got a fair wind ; and this day 

 at three o'clock in the evening weighed anchor and set sail, 

 all in excellent health and spirits, perfectly prepared (in 

 mind at least) to undergo with cheerfulness any fatigues or 

 dangers that may occur in our intended voyage. 



26th. Saw this evening a shoal of those fish which are 

 particularly called Porpoises by the seamen, probably the 

 Delphinus Phoccena of Linnaeus, as their noses are very blunt. 



2Sth. In some sea water which was on board to season 

 a cask, observed a very minute sea -insect, which Dr. 

 Solander described by the name of Podura marina. Took 

 several specimens of Medusa pelagica, whose different motions 

 in swimming amused us very much ; among the appendages 

 to this animal we found also a new species of Oniscus. We 

 took also another animal, quite different from any we had 

 ever seen ; it was of an angular figure, about three inches 



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