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To Brazil

the boat but found nothing on the surface of the water; on returning home however found on the stern of the ship two new species of Lepas vittata & midas, they were both sticking to the bottom in company with the anatifera, of which there was great abundance. After dinner calld upon deck by another shark, who had been lately wounded by a harpoon, but he was two cunning after his misfortune to bite at our baits which we much Lamented as he had sucking fish upon him that were quite white, probably a species not before yet describd.

10. Go Went out in the boat today, took plenty of Helix Janthina & some few of violacea, shot the black toed gull of Penn. Zool. it had not yet been describd according to Linnaeus's system, so calld it Larus crepidatus, its food here seems to be cheifly Helixes on account
 

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