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Jan.] the attempts of the avages, that every one of our company hould undertand the ue of uch arms as we had on board.

The captain of the Eperance having ordered an half of a very fine tunny to be tied to a buoy and thrown into the water, as a preent to our Commander; it did not float near enough to our veel to enable us to take it up, when one of the ailors plunged into the ea in order to wim after it, although it was known that a hark had been caught that very morning by the crew of the Eperance; and the calmnes of the weather afforded an additional ground of apprehenion, let one of our bet eamen might fall a prey to another of thee animals.

Notwithtanding we had already reached the thirty-third degree of outh lat., being in 5° F. long., the bonitos till continued to follow us in as numerous hoals as ever; though they are eldom known to abound at o high a degree of latitude. The north winds were probably the occaion of their leaving their uual haunts.

I mut do the crew of our hips the jutice to remark, that if they were les killed in fihing than the crew of the Eperance, they alo laboured under certain diadvantages which the others did not. It was the buines of the boatwain to furnih the ailors with lines, which ours ditri- buted