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iiefli of the porpoife wlien killed is red, and looks like c H A P. 

 fome kinds of pork. 



The berrmg-gull is a bird as large as a tame duck, per- 

 fedtly white, part of the beak and prime feathers except- 

 ed, which are of a dark alli-colonr; the eyes are grey, the 

 bill and feet are yellow ; the claws are black, and the 

 length of its wings is between four and five feet, from 

 the extremity of the one to the other. 



On the 13th, in the morning-watch, being not far from 

 the Azores or Weftern Ifles, the veflel was nearly laid on 

 her beam-ends, though then under double-reefed top- 

 fails, by a fudden fquall at E. At this time a broken tcp- 

 gallant-maft, a new hand-fpike, &c. floated paft the lliip, 

 the melancholy remains of a fliipwreck, which we lince 

 were informed to be a Dutch homeward-bound Eaft 

 Indiaman, that had foundered with all the crew near the 

 iiland of ^erccira. 



On the 14th the wind was violent, carrying away our 

 fore-top-gallant-maft, and fplitting the main-fail, v/hile 

 the other veiTel loft her bowfprit, 8cc.; and on the evening 

 of the I5tli it blew a perfe(5l fiorm, accompanied with 

 thunder and lightening, and very heavy rain, which con- 

 tinued during the night, and which brought our main- 

 top-maft by the board, while the lliip's crew v/ere fo 

 very much reduced as to be hardly able to clear the 

 wreck, in which I cheerfully aliiiied, by cutting av/ay 

 with a hatchet. 



The tv/o following days we continued fcudtling before 



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