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In search of the Southern Continent

16. Weather rather more moderate but still blows fresh   myself rather better but still very sick at the stomach which continualy supplys a thin acid liquor which I discharge by vomit  birds as yesterday

17. Moderate few birds   myself quite well.

18. Moderate this morn  several pintados and albatrosses   in the evening quite calm.

19. Quite calm today go out in the boat and shoot Procellaria Garlur velox (the small  dove of the 31st)  vagabunda (the grey backd shearwater of the same day)  Passerina (the small mother Careys chicken of the 10th.  took with the dipping net Medusa vitrea  Phillodoce velella  to one specimen of which stuck Lepas anatifera  doris complanata  Helix violacea  Cancer..... Very few birds were to be seen  there were however some Albatrosses and a kind of Shearwater quite black which I was not fortunate enough to shoot  /a large hollow swell from the South/

20. Uncertain weather  Calms and light breezes often succeeding each other  few birds about the ship

21. Pleasant breeze  some birds about us  Albatrosses and black and grey shearwaters

22. Moderate   few birds cheifly Albatrosses and Shearwaters Pintados  towards night a large flock of Black shearwaters are seen that do not change their place but keep hovering as if some prey was under them   two whales were also seen  /southerly swell still continued/

23. Moderate today several birds are about the ship  cheifly Pintados and Albatrosses  in the evening another flock of Black shearwaters passd the ship and soon after two whales were seen

 

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