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To Brazil
Octr.
(if I may so call it) as it certainly stuck to him & preyd upon the Juices which it extrated by sucktion, probably much to his disquiet, it provd to be monoculus piscinus Linn. which Baster has given a figure of in his opera subcessive, but has by some unlucky accident describd imagining mistaken the head to be the tail, & the tail the head, with & the ovaria for antennae.
in the inside of the fish were also found two animals which preyd upon him one in his very flesh tho near the membrane which covers the intestines, Fasciola Pelamines Mss the other in the stomach sipunculus piscium Mss.
2. This morn two swallows were about the ship, tho we must now be 60 Leagues at least from any land, at night one of them is taken & proved to be Hirundo domestica Linn.
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