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240 9° 2-10ths above 0, the cold was nevertheless great. The violent agitation of the air appeared to me the principal cause of the sensation which we experienced.

On the first of June, having arrived in latitude 37° 17′ S. and longitude 154° 5′ E., we saw a great number of speckled petrels (procellaria capensis) and many albatrosses remarkable for the red extremities of their wings.

2d. The next day many flying fishes, of the same species with those which we had so often met with elsewhere, falling on board of us, announced our arrival in parts of the sea frequented by bonitoes.

The motion of the ship, since our departure, had made me so faint, that I found myself absolutely incapable of taking the measures necessary for the preservation of the objects which I had collected in my last excursions.

3d. But this day the sea became more calm, and allowed me to enter upon that business. My specimens had suffered no damage; only I found them slightly covered with moisture.

5th. Since our departure from New Holland, we had been reduced to short allowance of water; and the heat, which now began to be very sensibly felt, rendered that privation the more painful. We were allowed but a bottle in the day; although