I found the taste to resemble sturgeon.

We experienced on that day an excessive heat, the mercury being at 94 deg.

of Fahrenheit.

From the 8th to the 11th we had on board a canary bird, which we treated with the greatest care and kindness, but which nevertheless quitted us, probably for a certain death.
The nearer we approached to the equator the more we perceived the heat to increase: on the 16th, in latitude 6 deg., longitude 22 deg.

west from Greenwich, the mercury stood at 108 deg..