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 lsse. but canied us considerably to tim westWe h Oa this eoutse we were aecompanied by im- Linn.,) but they Were of small sire; very few measured more than twenty inches in langt, and the avetnge weight about ten pounds: the met was very good and tender, and, as great number o� the fish were caught, proved � grateful relief to out salt diet. The atmosphate was very damp, and before the vessel entemt the trade we had lightning every night, but it coased the moment that we were within its _iimit Tropic and other oceanic birds, some of �dark " brown colour, hovered hout us, and were our daily companions, particularly ths latter, whioh preyed upon the small fish that were pursued by the albicsres. n-14, From the 11th to the 14th the trade and the interval was snpplied by a northerly vind, veering round ta west, which enabled us to make up for the ground w had lost by its 'having been so much from the southward. After this we had variable breezes between South ." B.S.E., but the current, which before had ben stting us to the north-west, now set to the north- ,east; this change was probably occasioaed by ,the south. westerly swell. On t! 14th we wre in 97 � S,, and 10 !

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