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On the fecond day after leaving the ifland, we loft 

 fight of all birds of any kind, but faw great num- 

 bers of flying fifh and boniros. On the 13th of 

 June in a clear night and fettled bteeze at S. E. 

 without the leaft appearance of any difagreeable 

 change, we were furprized by a ftorm of wind and 

 rain, that all we could do was to bear up under our 

 courfes. It was indeed too violent to laft ; and ac- 

 cordingly about an hour after the weather cleared up. 

 On the 1 5th we began again to fee Tunny-fi(h in large 

 flioals J and the i6th it was calm intermixed with 

 gentle breezes and ihowers, till the 1 7th. The fame 

 weather continued the i8th and 19th, with now and 

 then thick clouds in the horizon, which we obfer^^ed 

 afterwards to go off in violent Ihowers. 



On the 20th of June in the lat. of 9 deg. 28 min* 

 N. we faw a bird, the only one which had appeared 

 fince our departure from the ifland. It Vv^as fomething 

 larger than the Pardela, of a dark brown colour, 

 except the breaft and lov/er parts of the body, and 

 the wings remarkably long. On the 2 2d fqualls and 

 lliowers. On the 24th we &w great numbers of 

 Tunnies, flying fifh and cavallas, a fifh not unlike a 

 mackrel ; and a bird of the fame kind as that we faw 

 on the 21ft. 



On the 27th, being in 17 deg. 57 min. N. lat."' 

 the fea was covered with a kind of weed called Sar- 

 gafo, which pickled, is by many thought equal to 

 Samphire : and along this verdant furface our courfc 

 continued till the 7th of July, that is, till we were 

 in the lat. of 33 deg. 31 min. when little of it was to 

 be feen. Whereas for fome days before the whole 

 ocean within fight was, as it were, covered with it. 

 During this time we alfo faw fome birds ; but par- 

 ticularly in the afternoon of the 29th of June, and 

 on the 30th in the morning. Some of thefe were of 

 a middling fize and of a dark brown colour ; alfo 

 fome black Rabiahorcados •, and on the morning of 



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