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[Page 53]

To Brazil

Septr. 1768

18. This Evening every thing being ready for sea, we went on board, & at 8 o'Clock got under way with a very light breeze.

19. Light Breezes all day, without any event worth writing about.

20. Still almost calm, which gave us an opportunity of taking with the casting nett a most beautifull species of Medusa, of a colour equaling if not exceeding the finest ultramarine; it was describd & calld Medusa azurea.

21. This morn wind foul, saw however some rocks call'd in the old charts Salvages which lay to the northward of the Canarys.

22. No land in sight this morn, towards noon almost calm, many fish were about the ship, but our fishermen could not contrive to catch any of them.

23. This morn we were calld up very early to see the pike of Teneriffe, which now for the first time appeard at a vast distance

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