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May 1771.    Passage homeward.

home much before us.

7. Still kept Company & today were abreast of the headmost ship  many flying fish were seen & some few Birds

10. This day we saw the Island of Ascencion which is tolerably high Land  Our Captn however did not chuse to anchor unwilling to give the fleet so much start of him. Those who have been ashore upon this Island say that it is little more than a heap of Cinders the remains of a Volcano which burnt even since the discovery of the Indies  Osbeck who was ashore upon it found only 5 species of plants but I am much inclind to beleive that there are others which escapd his notice  as he certainly was not on the side of the Island where the French Land  in which place I have been informd is a pretty wide plain coverd with herbage among which grows Cactus Opuntia  a plant not seen by that gentleman

11. Pleasant weather  Saw Holothuria Physalis

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