WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
ftric^lly adhered to, made in a few days fo fudden a change 
for the better in the poor fellows, who had been covered 
with ulcers and livid blotches, that every perfon on board 
was furprifed at it : and, in a fortnight after, when we got 
into port, there was not a man in the fhip, though, at the 
time we received the water, the gums of fome of them were 
formed into fuch a fungus as nearly to envelope the teeth, 
but what had every appearance of health. 
7th. Dark, cloudy, unpleafant, fultry weather ; the wind 
fouth by eaft. We faw many fifh, and caught two bonitoes* 
The boatfwain ftruck, with a pair of grains, out of the cabia 
"window, a mofl: beautiful iifh, about ten pounds weight. 
In fliape it a good deal refembled a falmon, with this differ- 
ence, that its tail was more forked. It was in colour of a 
lovely yellow ; and when firft taken out of the water, it had 
two beautiful ftripes of green on each fide, which, fome minutes^ 
after, changed to a delightful blue, and fo continued. In the 
internal formation of this fifh I obferved nothing particular, 
except that its heart was larger, and its refpirations con- 
traded and dilated longer, than I had ever feen before in any 
aquatic animal, a tortoife not excepted. As we were at a lofs 
what 
