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ally, more than ten minutes after its head had been cut off and its 
heart and all the viscera had been removed, we wished to draw it 
to the bow of the ship to wash it at the pump. The animal, which 
was held by the tail, made such violent efforts and heaved its body 
with so much strength and quickness, that several persons were 
knocked over by it.” 
“On the 27th, we met with numerous shoals of flying-fish; we 
saw them again on the 30th, December 1st and 2nd, in latitudes! 
from 14° to 10°. 
On December 2, in 15°, we observed the first Tropic Bircl 
(Phaeton aether eus, Lin.), the most beautiful of the equatorial 
oceanic birds: on the 22nd we saw them again, and on this date we 
had just passed the tropic of Capricorn.” 
On December 11 we w T ere in 21° S. Lat. and 101° E. Long, 
from Paris : we saw a Cape Pigeon 1 ( Procellaria capensis), the 
most elegant of the Antarctic oceanic birds, whose description occurs 
so often in the accounts of ancient and modern voyagers. On the 
13th we saw them again, and the same day we observed Phaetons, so 
that we saw together at the same place two animals, of which one, 
exclusively inhabiting the Antarctic seas, is at home amidst cold, fog, 
and storms, whilst the other, attached, as Buffon says, to the high- 
way of the sun, loves the calm of the Tropics and their high tem- 
perature.” “We observed Cape Pigeons in great numbers the whole 
length of Leeuwin land, and even in Geographe Bay, in 33°. ” 
“On the 25th we saw Grey Petrels (Procellaria grisea, Lin.) : 
we met with them again on the 29<th, 30th, and 31st of the same 
month, in latitude 32°-33° S.” 
“On December 29th, the sea appeared to be covered with 
Ianthina, the most agreeable of the pelagic shelled Mollusca; this 
mollusc, by means of a cluster of little vesicles filled with air, 
floats freely on the surface of the water, as we have already observed. 
On this brilliant shell, I discovered a new species of Crustacean, of 
an ultramarine blue colour like it. 1 recognised it as a Pinnotheres 
and described it under the name of Pinnotheres Ianthinae. This 
discovery is specially interesting, since these animals never seem to 
have been discovered parasitic on univalve shells before.” 
“On January 4th, 1802, in the midst of the waves, we saw two 
monstrous whales, which passed very near the ship; it was, how- 
ever, impossible for me to determine their genus, because they only 
just ascended to the surface of the waves and then disappeared, 
leaving a vast foam behind them.” 
“On the 5th we were already in 37° of Latitude and in 117° of 
Longitude East (of Paris). Here the great Equinoctial Petrel (Pro- 
cellaria equinoxialis , Lin.) disappeared; it had appeared to us for 
the first time in latitude 21° on the 11th of December; and fro,m that 
date onwards, it had never ceased to be on view round our vessel. 
Daption capense, Linn. 
