92 VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



red Y2ijs, the membrane between them was dark red or almost 

 brown. The tail was undivided and had eighteen rays of medium 

 size, which are fleshy. The scales were plain. The whole body 

 was of a beautiful silvery vermillion red. This fish was said to 

 have a very good taste and to be very wholesome ; it is very flat, 

 and its flesh is very white. 



Another specimen of Sparus was shortly afterwards caught. 

 It was longer, and not as broad. The head was smaller and it had 

 besides the other teeth, which it had in common with the former 

 rpecimen, four teeth w^hich were big and conical ; they stood in 

 the upper and lower jaw and protruded on both sides. The back 

 was also covered with fins, these being divided in the middle. 

 Its colour was silvery white, and it had golden rhomboid spots 

 at its sides. The cook examined it in his manner much against 

 my wish, before I had finished examining the first specimen. 



The wind and weather were almost as contrary to-day as 

 in the days before, so that we did not advance more than three 

 minutes in latitude and about ten in longitude. 



12. — In the night a favourable though still weak wind sprang 

 up. Early to-day I saw some brown snakes quite unknown to 

 me, and several of those described before ; they were passing 

 the ship, but I was not able to catch any. We saw Pullu Pinang 

 on our left ; it is a very fertile island with many high mountains 

 overgrown with trees, producing much Damar. 



I saw to day several swallows, three of them flying low^er 

 than the ship, they went towards the sea ; at the time we had 

 clear and calm weather. In the afternoon we had strong showers 

 with w^ind and afterwards dead calm. 



A man fell from the top of the highest mast ; luckily for him 

 he fell on his left side, more especially on his hip. He had two 

 wounds in his head above the temple. At first he seemed to be 

 in a dangerous condition, his extremities were as if dead, he was 

 unconscious and foamed from the mouth, etc. They bled him 

 and gave him some other remedies, which brought him round 

 again. 



The people brought me a bird, which seemed to me to be of 

 a new kind, though the crew declared it to be very well known 

 and called it bubbi (booby ;) the description of it follows I have 

 placed it among the Lari. It is fully as big as an ordinary 

 pigeon, so that I first mistook it for one, it also having the same 



