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To Brazil

Octr. 1768

3. This morn the other swallow was found dead upon the deck; now for the first time we have lost the trade, & expected calm & squally weather till we shall cross the line.

The trade had now lasted us pretty free from squalls or calms these days it has been in general between but ever since we have been in it the air has been uncommonly damp, every thing more than usualy liable to mould, & all Iron work to rust, the air has seldom been Clear, but a haize in it which was even perceiveable to the human frame.

4. Today quite calm, I went out in a boat & took dagysa strumosa, medusa porpita, the same which we before calld azurea, mimus volutator, & cimex who runns

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