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Standing to the Westward

I have seen before in being very much larger in having their back fins a great deall higher in proportion & in every one having a white spot on each side of his face as large as the crown of a hat but of an oval shape

March
1. Fine weather & very pleasant began the new month by pulling off an under waistcoat

2. Rather squally this morn & had been so all night it did not however blow up to a gale tho the ship had a good deal of motion indeed I began to hope that we were now so near the peacefull part of the Pacifick [Pacific] ocean that we may almost cease to fear any more gales

3. Calm went in the boat & killd Procellaria velox 2 velificans 3 sordida 4 melanopus 5 lugens agilis & Diomedaea exulans. The Albatross very brown exactly the same as the first I killd which if I mistake not was nearly in the same latitude on the other side of the continent caught Holothuria obtusata Phillodoce velella exactly the same as those taken on the other side of the continent except in size which in these did not exceed that of an English sixpence also Dagysa vitrea the same as that taken off Rio de Janeiro now however we had an opportunity of seeing its extordinary manner of breeding which is
 

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