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The body is covered with ten stripes in the shape of a half circle, 

 and from the ninth near the tail there is a projecting- point. All 

 are white with black spots, specially towards the edg'es. The 

 tail is pointed, heart-shaped, generally flat, and has on each side 

 three pairs of lancetshaped pointed lobes of unequal length, each 

 of these pairs having a common base. The feet are like those of 

 the whole family. 



There was another kind which differed from them in so far, 

 that the projecting point in front, is divided into two parts, and 

 that the short pliable antennse, are placed immediately underneath; 

 the tail was more concave and had bigger lobes and they were 

 more in number. The whole back is coffee brown. In size and 

 everything else, they are like those I described before. 



We saw early this morning the cliff which was wrongly 

 marked in the chart, we passed it and at midday we w^ere on the 

 eleven tliMegree thirteen minutes of N. Lat. The wind was only 

 weak and we had showers and storms at intervals. 



24. — The blue gut of the Clio retusa had turned yellow to- 

 day in spirits, and the C. concatenata had given the spirits a 

 milky colour. When the anchors were hoisted this morning they 

 brought up a sort of whitish grey clay, with red and yellow iron 

 particles, it was very soft and fine to the touch, hard and did not 

 effervesce in aqua fortis. There were many shells in this clay, 

 specially little Turris and half putrid Dentalia. We passed to- 

 day some very high mountains situated on some islands, they 

 were of long extent and formed a continuous ridge with some smal- 

 ler mountains ; they were very much cleft and overgrown with 

 trees down to the sea-shore. In the distance we saw a smaller 

 island, only consisting of some high and small mountains, behind 

 which a place important for commerce was said to be situated; it 

 has a flourishing trade in Grutta percha. Cardamoms and even gold. 

 This place really lies on the land and near it there is a mountain 

 having a table-shaped summit, which must at least be as high as 

 the Table Mountain. 



'2b. — To-day we proceeded with fine weather and favourable 

 wind as far as the little Sinus or the bay of Siam. We passed 

 the cape marked in the charts as Cape Slant, which according to 

 our captain is formed of mountainous islands, and in his opinion 

 the situation marked on the chart is totally wrong, but as this was 

 a point only clear to sailors I did not make any closer inquiiy, as 



