1 10 Colour d Clouds boding a Storm. 
'An.i 6 ^<). we had yet fight of the Antelope, and of the 
Land too , till Tuefday the 6th of June: 
And then we faw alfo by us an inumerable 
Company of Fowls of divers forts ; fo 
that we lookt about to fee if there were not 
another dead Whale, but faw none. 
The Night before, the Sun fet in a black 
Cloud, which appeared juft like Land ; and 
the Clouds above it were gilded of a dark 
red Colour. And on the Tuefday, as the Sun 
drew near the Horizon, the Clouds were 
gilded very prettily to the Eye, tho’ at the 
fame time my JMind dreaded the Confe- 
quences of it. When the Sun was now 
not above 2 deg. high, it entered into a dark 
fmoaky-coloured Cloud that lay parallel 
with the Horizon, from whence prefently 
feem’d to iffue many dusky blackifh Beams. 
The Sky was at this time covered with 
fmall hard Clouds (as we call fuch as lie 
fcattering about, not likely to Rain) very 
thick one by another ; and fuch of them 
as lay next to the Bank of Clouds at the 
Horizon, were of a pure Gold colour to ^ 
or 4 deg. high above the Bank : From thefe 
to about 10 deg. high they were redder, 
and very bright; above them they were of a 
darker Colour ftill, to about 60 or 70 deg. 
high ; where the Clouds began to be of their 
common Colour. I took the more particu- 
lar Notice of all this, becaufe I have gene- 
rally obferved ftich colour’d Clouds to ap- 
pear 
