This page has already been transcribed. You can find new pages to transcribe here.

Transcription

[Page 281]

277.
May 1770.   Thirsty Sound

knocking them down with our caps or any thing that came to hand  on the leaves of the gum tree we found a Pupa or Chrysalis which shone almost all over as bright as if it had been silverd over with the most burnishd silver & perfectly resembled silver  it was brought on board & the next day came out into a butterfly of a velvet black changeable to blue  his wings both upper & under markd near the edges with many light brimstone colourd spots  those of his under wings being indented deeply at each end. We saw no fresh water but several swamps of salt overgrown with mangroves  in these we found some species of shells  Among them the Trochus perspectivus Linn.  here was also a very singular Phænomenon in a small fish of     of which there were great abundance  it was about the size of a minnow in England & had two breast finns very strong   we often found him in places quite dry where may be he had been left by the tide  upon seeing us he immediately fled from us leaping as nimbly as a frog by the help of his breast finns  nor did he seem to prefer water to land for if seen in the water he often leapd out

Current Status: 
Completed