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277. May 1770. Thirsty Sound
knocking them down with our caps or any thing that came to hand on the leaves of the gum tree we found a Pupa or Chrysalis which shone almost all over as bright as if it had been silverd over with the most burnishd silver & perfectly resembled silver it was brought on board & the next day came out into a butterfly of a velvet black changeable to blue his wings both upper & under markd near the edges with many light brimstone colourd spots those of his under wings being indented deeply at each end. We saw no fresh water but several swamps of salt overgrown with mangroves in these we found some species of shells Among them the Trochus perspectivus Linn. here was also a very singular Phænomenon in a small fish of of which there were great abundance it was about the size of a minnow in England & had two breast finns very strong we often found him in places quite dry where may be he had been left by the tide upon seeing us he immediately fled from us leaping as nimbly as a frog by the help of his breast finns nor did he seem to prefer water to land for if seen in the water he often leapd out
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