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fwam behind, or along iide of the {hip was 

 very flow, and gave a fair opportunity to 

 hit them with the harpoon, though fome 

 are taken with a hook and Hne, and a bait 

 of chicken bowels, fmall fiih, or pieces 

 of his own fpecies, or the flying fifli, which 

 latter are their chief food : and it is by 

 their chaflng them, that the flying fifli leave 

 their element to find fhelter in one to which 

 they are flirangers. The Dolphins fome- 

 times leap a fathom out of the water, and 

 love to fwim about cafks and logs of wood, 

 that fometimes drive in the fea. They are 

 eaten with thick butter, when boiled, and 

 fometimes fried, and afford a palatable food, 

 but rather fomewhat dry. In the bellies of 

 the fifli of this fpecies which we caught, fe- 

 veral animals were found, viz. an OJiracion-, 

 a little fifh with blue eyes, which was yet 

 alive, being jufl: the moment before fwal- 

 lowed, and meafuring two inches in length -, 

 another little fifli ; a curious marine infedt, 

 and a flying fifli, all which not yet being 

 damaged by digellion, 1 preferved in fpirits. 

 The Flying Fijh fExocoetus njolitans, Linn. J 

 are always feen in great flioals, fometimes 

 of an hundred or more getting at once out 

 of the water, being purfued by greater fifh, 

 and chiefly by Dolphins ; they rife about a 

 yard, and even a fathom above the water 



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