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. 
7th. Caught Lepas cygnifera’ 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. 
10th. This morning the land was discovered by young 
Nick,’ the same boy who first saw New Zealand: it proved 
to be the Lizard. 
12th. At three o’clock landed at Deal. 
’ Probably Lepas anatifera. 
? His real name was Nicholas Young. 
