alone preserved their green, and the rest of his body 

 appeared to be of the brightest yellow, his scales shin- 

 ing like gold wherever they caught the sun ; while 

 the blood which, as long as he remained in the sea, 

 continued to spout in great quantities, forced its 

 way upwards through the water, like a wreath of 

 crimson smoke, and then dispersed itself in separate 

 globules among the spray. From the great loss of 

 blood, his colours soon became paler ; but when he 

 was at length safely landed on deck, and beating 

 himself to death against the flooring, agony re- 

 newed all the lustre of his tints : his fins were still 

 green and his body golden, except his back, which 

 was olive, shot with bright deep blue ; his head and 

 belly became silvery, and the spots with which the 

 latter was mottled changed, with incessant rapidity, 

 from deep olive to the most beautiful azure. Gra- 

 dually his brilliant tints disappeared : they were 

 succeeded by one uniform shade of slate-colour ; 

 and when he was quite dead, he exhibited nothing 

 but dirty brown and dull dead white. As soon as 

 all was over with him, the first thing done was to 

 convert one of his fins into the resemblance of a 

 flying fish, for the purpose of decoying other dol- 

 phins ; and the second, to order some of the pre- 

 sent gentleman to be got ready for dinner. He 

 measured above four feet and a half. 



December 14. 

 At noon to-day, we found ourselves in the lati- 

 tude of Jamaica. We were promised the sight 



