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Nov. 1768
OFF RIO DE JANEIRO
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we made our approach very slowly. The sea was inconceivably full of small vermes, which we took without the least difficulty: they were almost all new, except Beroe labiata, Medusa radiata, fimbriata, crystallina, and a Dagysa. Soon after a fishing-boat came aboard and sold us three scombers, which proved to be new, and were called S. salmoneus. His bait was Clupea chinensis, of which we also procured specimens.
