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with'out/board loathe main-chains, I fortunately grafped CHAP,
«hold of- him in his fall,'which faved him, as he could not
fwim, from inevitable death. />
. The entrance into' warmer regions gave occafion to
an' obfefyatiom perhaps/not':generally known, which
* (though; uncouth.) "touft be1 of great importance to fai-
lor^ï /natnely, that between' the Tropics, while vermin
‘may -rOmi^fin' th e’head/ none can pbifibly continue
to exifin ip 'the beddin^clo^ths,, linen, &c. > Having
hurnbiy^apologized for the àbô've remark to my delicate
'readers^ - I wilh eikd’eavour tp defcribe a ’ curious animal
with which ^hejfe^#aV|fe»Óurid, and which appears
to tfaÜNon /thé- Furfaee; Of - thè I w^wes; with a fide-wind,
whiled I^ffthë TMfors^tf^4 1 lgârlÿ' called a Portuguefe
man-ofrwar, ;4 hd‘%''proha||à^|ither 'the%xNauti/%s or the
Argonaut a of Linnæpt.;/ Thiâ f4 :oncFef ftiF crëature, when
ahdVe.\vater, affumes: ijhehhape. of an expandecl’fan, decorated
with a béabtifof red border,^Vhilelthe lower extremity
ps fixed to a fhell as’thin as‘ paper, or rather a
kind^bf boat/r\yhkh1fe:ifunk heeldw pr railed 'above the
furfaee of . the feay aod:îgu-idèd in any diredtion, at the
pleafure of the animal, by means of ûk tentacula or limbs,
which it ufes as oaf?, When thefe creatures are touched
by-the hand, they occafion, like the fea'blubber or jelly
fiïh, a painful tinkling5 Ténfation, which continues for ■
feVeral minutes.
The^two'following days^it. blew very ffefli, and -heavy
feas wafhed over the velfel ; during which,fwhile helping
to put a reef in the main-fop-fail for a little exercife, I loft
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