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“...this
mass of weed is not known, but it presumably
was once attached to rocks, though it is now
propagated as it floats on the surface. In colour,
it is yellow, and it supports fish, crabs, cuttlefish,
zoophytes, and molluscs, but owing to the pace
of the ship it is not easy to get any satisfactory
specimens of it on board. Whales are now occa-
sionally sighted, and the flying fish become a Flying Fish,
constant source of interest. With the sun glint-
ing 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 is like that of a flying machine, requiring
some considerable impetus to give it a start,
c...”
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