452 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO ENGLAND CH. xix 



23rd. Saw one shearwater: the reason of so few having 

 been seen this passage, may be that during their breeding 

 time they do not wander far out at sea. 



4th July. My bitch " Lady " was found dead in my 

 cabin, lying upon a stool on which she generally slept ; she 

 had been remarkably well for some days ; in the night she 

 shrieked out very loud, so that we who slept in the great 

 cabin heard her, but becoming quiet immediately no one re- 

 garded it: whatever disease was the cause of her death, it 

 was the most sudden that ever came under my observation. 



*lt~h. Caught Lepas cygnifera l floating upon the water in 

 round congeries, some of which were large enough to fill a 

 man's hat. 



8th. Calm : went in boat and shot fulmar and Manx 

 puffin, of Pennant's British Zoology. 



1 Oth. This morning the land was discovered by young 

 Mck, 2 the same boy who first saw New Zealand : it proved 

 to be the Lizard. 



1 2th. At three o'clock landed at Deal. 



1 Probably Lepas anatifera. 

 2 His real name was Nicholas Young. 





