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South Sea

many sorts of trees or at least many varieties of verdure

In the neighbourhood of both this & the other Island were many birds man of war birds & a small black sort of Sterna? with a white spot on his head which the seamen calld Noddies but said that they were much smaller than the West Indian Noddies

While we were near the Island a large fish was taken with a towing line baited with a peice of Pork rind cut like a swallows tail [see image for drawing] which the seamen calld it a King fish Scomber lanceolatus

5. Less wind this morn than yesterday with some showers of rain while we were at dinner word was brought down that there was land in sight from the mast head & found it a low Island but of much greater extent than either of those seen yesterday being from 10 to 15 leagues in Circumference myself remaind at the mast head the whole evening admiring its extrordinary structure in shape it appeard to be like a bow the wood & string of which was land & the inner parts within occupied by a large lake of water which bore about the same proportion to

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Bow Island

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