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“...weed is not known,
put the mass was once presumably attached to rocks,
I though it is now propagated as it floats on the surface.
I In colour it is yellow, and it supports fish, crabs, cuttle-
ifish, zoophytes, and molluscs, but owing to the pace of
i the ship it is not easy to get any satisfactory specimens
of it on board. Whales and porpoises are now occasion-
ally sighted, and the flying fish become a constant source
of interest. With the sun glinting on their silvery wings,
(they look like dragon-flies as they leap round the bows of
the ship. That they actually fly cannot be denied, but
their flight appears to be like that of the original “ glider "
«aeroplane, requiring some considerable impetus to give it
a start; and this is soon expended. The fish forces its
|way through the water, and, rising from it, is carried for-
fward and skims the surface, gaining momentum each
kime it touches the waves. The size of the fish is that of
a small herring; and there are always many old travellers...”
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“... 323, 326
Black River, Jamaica, 256, 258
Black Rocks, 223
Black Virgins, 139, 140, 144
Blairmont, 377
Blanche, H.M.S., 308
Blanchisseuse, 144, 145
Blankenburg, 376
Bligh, Captain, 188, 189, 190
Bliss, Baron, 396
Blome, Richard, 108, 216, 219,
231
Blue Basin, 132, 133, 138
Bluebeard Castle, 323, 326
Blue Hole, 286
Blue Mountains, Jamaica, 255,
257, 262, 279, 288
Boaz Island, 53
Boca Chica, 405
Boca de la Serpiente, 113, 115,
144
Boca Grande, Cartagena, 405
Boca Grande, Trinidad, 121
Bocas del Dragon, 113, 115
Boddentown, 301, 303
Body Ponds, 200
Boeraserie, 376
Bog Walk, 260, 285
Bogle, Robert, 268
Bogue Islands, 292
Boiling Lake, Dominica, 245
Bois Immortel, 140
Bolivar, Simon, 401, 409
Bonaire, 339
Boqueron, 363
Borde, Mr. H., 122
Boreas, H.M.S., 211, 232, 249
Botanical Gardens, Bermuda,
59
— Dominica, 243
— Georgetown, 383-4
— Grenada, 162
— St. Kitts, 221
— St. Lucia, 173
— St. Vincent, 189-91
— Trinidad, 128
Bottom, the, 342...”
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