4gi3i TRAVELS IN 
I do not at prefent recollecfl that any natu- 
ral i ft has fpoken of thefe white re moras. Yet 
other travellers befide me have feen them. I 
fhall cite on this head Dubadier, known in 
natural hiftory for his rare and ample collec- 
tion of the criiftacese of the Caribbee iflands. 
In his laft voyage, this natiiralift faw, in lat. 
45° north, long. 333^, a fimilar ray, which 
he fuppofed to be about twenty-five or thirty 
feet in breadth, accompanied by its two white 
pilots. He made a drawing of it, as I did of 
the rays which I fav\r ; and, on comparing 
thefe drav/ings, the fifli evidently appear to be 
of the fame fpecies. 
The remainder of our paflage offered no- 
thing remarkable, but the contrary winds 
with which we were continually buffeted : 
and indeed In lat. 33° vs^e were again at- 
tacked by a violent ftorm. Fearing our 
voyage v/ould be long and tedious, all the 
crev/ were put to fhort allowance of water. 
On the fourth of Odober we paffed the de- 
fert iflands of Flores and Gorvo, and failed 
within mufket Giot of their fhores. 
On the ninth of the fame month one of 
the crew fell overboard. The waves ran fo 
high it was impOiTible to fave him. He was 
2 inftantly 
