NOV. 1768 OFF RIO DE JANEIRO 25 
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, erystallina, and a Dagysa. 
Soon after a fishing-boat came aboard and sold us three 
scombers, which proved to be new, and were called & 
salmoneus. His bait was Clupea chinensis, of which we also 
procured specimens. 
