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Arop,* which from far appear to have very high mountains Hke 

 those on Cape Teneriffe, but as we came nearer it appeared that 

 they were not hig^h at all in reality. Shortly after we saw the 

 Pisang" islands and towards evening- Pullu Timon (Tioman). 

 Towards midday we had a strong' shower of rain, and two swal- 

 lows could easily be caught, as they had got wet. One of them 

 was a little bigger than those that build the nests. The back 

 was grey, strewn with small white specks ; the wings were rust- 

 coloured underneath, the rest was dark grey. The smaller one 

 was not like those that build the nests. At the side of the bill it 

 has some stiff bristles. It had eighteen feathers in the wing', nine 

 of each kind, and twelve tail-feathers, which were nearly all of 

 equal length, they were light grey at the outer edges, except the 

 two middle ones. It seemed to be quite a young bird, because 

 it shrieked, when it was touched. The edge of the bill was 

 yellow and the palate and tongue were of the same colour. 



A two-mast ship sailing- under the Danish flag passed us, just 

 after we had first seen Pullu Aar (Aor). 



8. — During the night we had almost entire calm and for a 

 long time we could still see the mountains of the islands Tingi, 

 Pisang and Timon. The first mentioned soon disappeared from 

 our sight, but the others, consisting' of several islands, were still 

 visible during the whole day I stuffed the two birds and renewed 

 my description of the Hirundo esculenta. 



I had a severe swelling at my left foot, which was partly 

 caused by a cold, partly by the fatigues of the journey and had 

 been aggravated by a fall. This made me somewhat anxious. 

 We were this afternoon 2 deg'rees 49 minutes of X. L. 



9. — During the night we had had calm as before, and Pullu 

 Timon was still distinctly visible, although our captain knew we 

 were eighteen leagues away from it. Some ram showers chang- 

 ed our favourable wind for some time, but it soon turned round 

 again. The air seemed to be cold, but we still had twenty degrees 

 above zero according to Reaumur's thermometer. 



12. — During all these days I had to remain in bed on ac- 

 count of a phleg'mon ( swelling ) on my left foot, which at the 

 same time had swollen as far as the knee, on account of an 

 cedeomatic swelling. To-day I could get up for a little while, and 

 saw a great many Medusa porphita passing, which had spread 



* Aor. 



