Captain Cooks Three Voyages Round the World With a Sketch of His Life
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It is of a brownish- sandy colour, with rusty spots on the upper part and below. From the quantity oi slime it was always covered with, it seems to live after the manner of flat fish at the bottom. Upon the rocks are plenty of muscles and some other small shell-fish. There are also great numbers of sea-stars, some small limpets, and large quantities of sponge, one sort of which thrives on shore by the sea, and has a most delicate texture. Among the insects are grasshoppers, butterflies, and sev...eral sorts of small moths, finely variegated. There are two sorts of dragon-flies, gad- flies, camel-flies, several sorts of spiders, and some scorpions, but the last are rather rare. The most troublesome, though not very numerous tribe of insects, are the mosquitoes, and a large black ant, the pain of whose bite, while it lasts, is almost intolerable. THE THIRD VOYAGE. 265 The inhabitants whom we met with here had little of that fierce and wild appearance common to people in their situation, but on the contrary seemed mild and cheerful, without reserve or jealousy of strangers.
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