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 then covered with them: but of ix which we killed, and of four ecured along ide, the weather proved o bad, that we could only ave the bodies of two fih, and one head.

We beat to windward off Mocha for everal days, during which time we aw a great number of whales, but killed no more than two, of which we aved one. Several of my people getting hurt in flinching them, and others breaking out in boils from the bad tate of the weather, I was obliged to purue my voyage; but, by ordering the ick two oranges every day per peron, with a large glas of lime juice and water every morning, they oon recovered, as well as thoe alo who were hurt in whaling.

I place Mocha Iland in Latitude 38° 24′, and Longitude 75° 00′. It is of a height to be een at the ditance of fifteen or ixteen leagues in clear weather, and on approaching it, its ummit appears rugged. It is about three or four leagues in length, laying in a North and South direction by compas. The Northern part of the iland decends gradually into a low, andy point, or long tongue of land, on which is a rock or cros, that has the emblance of a ail. The South point, at the ditance we were, appeared to end in a more abrupt manner, and there