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[Page 57]

To Brazil

Septr. 1768

most intolerably hot, the Thermometer standing all night at 78 in the cabbin tho every window was open.

27. About one this morn a flying fish was brought into the cabbin, the first that had been taken; it flew aboard, I suppose chasd by some other fish, or maybe merely because he did not see the ship; at breakfast another was brought, which had flown into Mr Green the Astronomers Cabbin. This whole day we saild at the rate of 7 knotts, sometimes a fathom or two more the wind being rather stronger than it usualy is in the trade.

28. Wind rather slackend; three birds were today about the ship, a swallow, to all appearance the same as our Europaean one, & two motacillas, about night fall one of the latter was taken; about 11 a shoal of Porpoises came about the

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