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June 1771.    Passage Homeward

last time Ascii. Showers & squalls of Wind  saw more Gulph weed

4. Gulph-Weed rather increasd

5. Less Gulph weed than yesterday  so least we should leave its station we began to Catch it by means of a pole with 6 large hooks fastned to its end   out of it we took Scyllæa pelagica, Medusa Porpita  Syngnathus pelagicus & Lophius pelagicusCancer minutus

6. More Gulf-weed in which took up several individuals of the aformentiond species  besides which were caught Cancer pelagicus & a shrimp not describd  Several tropick birds were seen all of which flew in a strait line towards the Coast of Africa

7. Still more Gulph-weed  in general laying in long lines upon the water of a very small breadth but extending in lengh as far as the eye could reach  More Tropick birds were seen most of which flew as yesterday
 

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