o 



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G 



A 



N 



I 



C 



B 



O 



D 



I 



E 



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was 



at length thrown over board as incurable. 



The fparus feems animal 



to have been mentioned by Qui Ros, under the name of pargos, 

 which he fays at one time poifoned great part of his fliip's company. 

 The tetrodon again is related clofely to the TetrodoJi ocellatiis, which 

 in Japan is commonly made ufe of in cafes of felf-deftrudion, and 

 the virus of which is enhanced by the Ilicium amfatum, an other- 

 wife falutary plant. (See Kcempfer Hijl. Japon.J 



It remains now that I. fhould fay fomething on the animals, 

 which are looked on as ligns of the approach of land : and I ought 



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here to add, that the fight of birds is not more 



b 



depended 



on, than that of fea-weeds, unlefs we are well allured that the 



birds 



we 



fee 



are land bird 



or never range to any 



diftance from land ; a circumllance not eafily afcertained. 



Seals, 



pinguins, petrels, and albatroifes, are feen fix or {even hundred 



% 



leagues from land, in the very middle of the South Sea, fo 

 that they cannot be depended on. Between the tropics, 



men 



Gf 



war 



birds 



are 



feen a hundred leagues from land, and 



as 



the ifles of the South Sea there, are much nearer together, they 

 cannot be looked upon as figns of land. Boobies and iha^s do 

 not wander fo far ; and the lafl, commonly not out of fight of 





land ; but one knows not how far accident may fometimes carry them. 



Thefe are the few remarks 



on animals which occured to me 



during the courfe of this expedition. 



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