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595. May 1771. Passage homeward.
home much before us.
7. Still kept Company & today were abreast of the headmost ship many flying fish were seen & some few Birds
10. This day we saw the Island of Ascencion which is tolerably high Land Our Captn however did not chuse to anchor unwilling to give the fleet so much start of him. Those who have been ashore upon this Island say that it is little more than a heap of Cinders the remains of a Volcano which burnt even since the discovery of the Indies Osbeck who was ashore upon it found only 5 species of plants but I am much inclind to beleive that there are others which escapd his notice as he certainly was not on the side of the Island where the French Land in which place I have been informd is a pretty wide plain coverd with herbage among which grows Cactus Opuntia a plant not seen by that gentleman
11. Pleasant weather Saw Holothuria Physalis
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