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we made our approach very slowly. The sea was incon- 

 ceivably full of small vermes, which we took without the 

 least difficulty : they were almost all new, except Beroe 

 labiata, Medusa radiata, fimbriata, crystallina, and a Dagysa. 

 Soon after a fishing -boat came aboard and sold us three 

 scombers, which proved to be new, and were called S. 

 salmoneus. His bait was Clupea chinensis, of which we also 

 procured specimens. 





