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'' | <!-- This page is organised in two columns --> <p>3</p> <p> midst of the gentle undulations that compound the main<lb/>surface of the stream were distinguishable like so<lb/> many ponds. A <del>gentle</del> <add> faint</add> eddy playing round them kept<lb/> them from <del>obeying</del> <add> yielding to the impulse & following</add> the direction of the circumambient <lb/> waves.</p> <p> Oct.16.Sunday. 1 o'clock</p> <p> We are at this moment a little short of the Island of Cerigo<lb/> viz: to the South-west of it, near enough to see with the naked eye<lb/>the roads and houses if there were any. The island belongs to <lb/>the venetians: whether it has at present any inhabitants we are as <lb/> yet in doubt, if there are none, the bad neighbourhood it is in, <lb/> viz that of the Maniotis, as bad thieves as their forefathers the<lb/><unclear>Lasadermonians,</unclear> is enough to account for the depopulation. Our present<lb/> situation affords another example in support of the preceding <lb/> observation relative to the unexpectedly great extent of a Seaview.<lb/> I can now see at one and the same time three of the <lb/> four promontories which divide and terminate the <unclear>Maria</unclear> <lb/>(viz: capes Gallo, Matapan & Corvi) The island of cerigo lying between<lb/> the Ship & Cape Corvi, the island of Ovo a small island <lb/> about 2 leagues a head not marked in my map of Europe, & <lb/> to the right (the South) the Island of Cerigato, and further still the <lb/> great island of Candia. the <gap/> Crete, a tantalizing object <add> of </add> which <lb/> I must content myself with a distant view. To the <unclear>Mora</unclear> we are <lb/> near enough to distinguish all the inflections of the coast <add> to the bottom of both <gap/> <gap/> </add> but we are<lb/> so far advanced to the east, that I question whether at the present<lb/> instant Cape Gallo be any longer visible, or whether it be not by <lb/> this time completely eclipsed by the interposition of Cape Matapan.</p><p> Captain brine who is a most dexterous harpooner has just <lb/> been <del>catching</del> striking a Pilot fish with an instrument called a <lb/> Grainge. In shape this fish is as much like to a trout as <lb/> to any fish I can think of: its colour greyish streaked<lb/> with blue. <del>A</del> <add> zig zig</add> in the manner of tent-stitch: it is a fine-<lb/>flavoured fish with very little bone in it. in size they seem<lb/> to run from about 1/2 a <sic>lb</sic> to a <sic>lb.</sic> The Grainge or as <lb/>it is sometimes called in the plural the Grains is an <lb/> instrument somewhat like Neptune's trident except that <lb/> instead of three prongs it has six all barbed like the <lb/> Devil's tail, and the handle about 8 foot long. the handle <lb/> being made fast to the ship with a long line the operation <lb/> may without danger of losing the instrument quit his hold<lb/> when the depth at which he sees the fish requires him <lb/> so to do. Out of 8 strokes which the Captain has had <lb/> occasion to make at these little fish within these few<lb/> days but one missed the mark, though several times<lb/> the fish were almost the length of the instrument under <lb/> water. It was not without surprize that I found the fish<lb/> when taken out of the water of the colours above described.<lb/> When seen through the water which itself was blue, the <lb/> blue streaks <del>of</del> on the fish appeared brown. At another<lb/> time the Captain made a stroke at a sucking-fish<lb/> and hit him, but the fish got off. The sucking-fish<lb/> is a fish much larger than the Pilot: the latter<lb/> is so called from his escorting the ships from port to port:<lb/> for when a fish of this sort once approaches a ship he<lb/> seldom leaves her: the sucking-fish attaches himself to <lb/> some part of the ship, generally the Rudder. The Pilots<lb/>are the only fish we have caught; but we have seen at <lb/> different times a number of porpoises, several squadrons<lb/> of flying fish pursued by Dolphins, a few blubbers, <lb/> a sea-snake, and a sleeping turtle. The latter we had <lb/> formed designs upon, but lost sight of her before we could get <lb/> out the boat. The sea-snake I had a full view of as it was <lb/> playing about the rudder. We supposed it about 8 or 9 feet long.</p> <pb/> | ||
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midst of the gentle undulations that compound the main
surface of the stream were distinguishable like so
many ponds. A gentle faint eddy playing round them kept
them from obeying yielding to the impulse & following the direction of the circumambient
waves.
Oct.16.Sunday. 1 o'clock
We are at this moment a little short of the Island of Cerigo
viz: to the South-west of it, near enough to see with the naked eye
the roads and houses if there were any. The island belongs to
the venetians: whether it has at present any inhabitants we are as
yet in doubt, if there are none, the bad neighbourhood it is in,
viz that of the Maniotis, as bad thieves as their forefathers the
Lasadermonians, is enough to account for the depopulation. Our present
situation affords another example in support of the preceding
observation relative to the unexpectedly great extent of a Seaview.
I can now see at one and the same time three of the
four promontories which divide and terminate the Maria
(viz: capes Gallo, Matapan & Corvi) The island of cerigo lying between
the Ship & Cape Corvi, the island of Ovo a small island
about 2 leagues a head not marked in my map of Europe, &
to the right (the South) the Island of Cerigato, and further still the
great island of Candia. the Crete, a tantalizing object of which
I must content myself with a distant view. To the Mora we are
near enough to distinguish all the inflections of the coast to the bottom of both but we are
so far advanced to the east, that I question whether at the present
instant Cape Gallo be any longer visible, or whether it be not by
this time completely eclipsed by the interposition of Cape Matapan.
Captain brine who is a most dexterous harpooner has just
been catching striking a Pilot fish with an instrument called a
Grainge. In shape this fish is as much like to a trout as
to any fish I can think of: its colour greyish streaked
with blue. A zig zig in the manner of tent-stitch: it is a fine-
flavoured fish with very little bone in it. in size they seem
to run from about 1/2 a lb to a lb. The Grainge or as
it is sometimes called in the plural the Grains is an
instrument somewhat like Neptune's trident except that
instead of three prongs it has six all barbed like the
Devil's tail, and the handle about 8 foot long. the handle
being made fast to the ship with a long line the operation
may without danger of losing the instrument quit his hold
when the depth at which he sees the fish requires him
so to do. Out of 8 strokes which the Captain has had
occasion to make at these little fish within these few
days but one missed the mark, though several times
the fish were almost the length of the instrument under
water. It was not without surprize that I found the fish
when taken out of the water of the colours above described.
When seen through the water which itself was blue, the
blue streaks of on the fish appeared brown. At another
time the Captain made a stroke at a sucking-fish
and hit him, but the fish got off. The sucking-fish
is a fish much larger than the Pilot: the latter
is so called from his escorting the ships from port to port:
for when a fish of this sort once approaches a ship he
seldom leaves her: the sucking-fish attaches himself to
some part of the ship, generally the Rudder. The Pilots
are the only fish we have caught; but we have seen at
different times a number of porpoises, several squadrons
of flying fish pursued by Dolphins, a few blubbers,
a sea-snake, and a sleeping turtle. The latter we had
formed designs upon, but lost sight of her before we could get
out the boat. The sea-snake I had a full view of as it was
playing about the rudder. We supposed it about 8 or 9 feet long.
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