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Thefe infeds are above an inch long, with a round CHAP. 



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patch under the belly, of a tranfparent greenifli colour, ._ ' . 

 which in the dark gives a light like a candle : its eyes 

 are alfo very luminous, and by the light of a couple of 

 thefe flies one may fee very well to read fmali print. 

 There is another fpecies, which is fmaller, and only to 

 be obferved when they fly elevated, at which time they 

 appear lik:e the intermitting fparks of fire emitted from 

 the forge of a blackfmith. 



On the i8th, having nothing elfe to do, I fhot a bird, 

 which is here called a tigri-fozvlo, or tiger-bird, but 

 which I take to be of the heron fpecies ; it is about the 

 lize of a heron, but of a reddifh colour, covered over with 

 regular black fpots, from which it has derived its name: 

 its bill, which is long and ftrait, as alfo the legs and 

 toes, are of a pale green colour, and feem to indicate 

 that it lives upon fifh : the neck is alfo long, from which 

 hangs down a kind of ias^es^'^feathers. On the head, 

 which is fmall, it has a roundifli black fpot, and its eyes 

 are a beautiful yellow. 



By a water-patrole from the Cerberus I received intel- 

 ligence this evening, that the men began to be fickly ; 

 and on the following day I was informed, that on the 

 fpot where we had dreffed our vidtuals, in the Cormoetibo 

 Creek, and which is on the rebel fide of the river, a 

 ftrong detachment had lately been murdered by the 

 enemy. I therefore ordered the flied to be burnt to the 

 ground, and the meat to be dreffed on board the barges. 



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