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To Cape Horn

Dec. 1768

not last above 10 minutes yet in that time blew as hard as it has done since we have been on board the ship

21. Foul wind & little of it

22. This morn quite calm a very large shoal of Porpoises came close to the ship they were of a kind different from any I have seen but so large that I dared not throw the gig into any of them some were 4 yards long their heads quite round but their hinder parts compressd they had one fin upon their backs like a porpoise & white lines over their eyes also a spot of white behind the fin they stayd above ½ an hour about the ship When they were gone Dr Solander & myself went out in the boat & shot two one species of Mother Careys chickens & one two shearwaters two of these both provd new Procellaria Gigantea & sandaliata The Carey was one but ill describd by Linnaeus

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