23rd. Saw one shearwater: the reason of so few having been seen this passage, may be that during their breeding time they do not wander far out at sea.
4th July. My bitch "Lady" was found dead in my cabin, lying upon a stool on which she generally slept; she had been remarkably well for some days; in the night she shrieked out very loud, so that we who slept in the great cabin heard her, but becoming quiet immediately no one regarded it: whatever disease was the cause of her death, it was the most sudden that ever came under my observation.
7th. Caught Lepas cygnifera[1] floating upon the water in round congeries, some of which were large enough to fill a man's hat.
8th. Calm: went in boat and shot fulmar and Manx puffin, of Pennant's British Zoology.
10th. This morning the land was discovered by young Nick,[2] the same boy who first saw New Zealand: it proved to be the Lizard.
12th. At three o'clock landed at Deal.
