201 VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



27. — The favourable wind lasted on ; at midday we were 

 on the seventh degree and fifty-five minutes. To-day I saw for 

 the first time the young- ones of the Blatta vivipara creep alive 

 from the living mother. 



28. — We had continued favourable wind for our journey 

 back. From the top of the mast land was seen towards evening, 

 which was supposed to be Junk Zeylon, or its foremost islands. 

 The sky was very red in the evening, specially in the east; in the 

 south-west there were some yellow-green spots. 



29. — Between three and four o'clock in the morning I saw a 

 faint rainbow in the north, which was caused by the moon being 

 clear and almost full. 



30. — We arrived between the islands and cast anchor towards 

 midday near a small island. There we found two English ships, 

 that of Captain James Scott and that of Captain Theserten. 



