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Several other birds were seen at this time, and many flying-fish fell into the ships. Next day there came a rabo de junco and an alcatraz from the westwards, and many sparrows were seen. About sunrise on Sunday the seventh of October, some signs of land appeared to the westwards, but being imperfect no person would mention the circumstance.
In the afternoon of this day they saw abundance of weeds lying in length north and south, and three alcatrazes pursued by a rabo de junco. On the morning of Sunday the thirtieth of September four rabo de juncos came to the ship; and from so many of them coming together it was thought the land could not be far distant, especially as four alcatrazes followed soon afterwards.
On Friday the twenty-eighth all the vessels took some of the fishes with gilt backs; and on Saturday the twenty-ninth they saw a rabo de junco, which, although a sea-fowl, never rests on the waves, but always flies in the air, pursuing the alcatrazes till it causes them to mute for fear, which it catches in the air for nourishment.
DOÑA MATILDE. En efecto ... siéntese usted, siéntese usted. DON EDUARDO. Es que temería.... DOÑA MATILDE. No, no; siéntese usted ... y como iba diciendo allí fué donde pasó toda su trágica historia, que tengo bien presente. Más la tengo yo, que la leí anoche de cabo a rabo. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Y aquella madre señor, aquella madre tan cruel que se empeñó en que su hija había de ser rica!
Rabo de junco is explained to signify Rush-tailed: Rabo being a tail and Junco a rush in the Spanish language. Don Ferdinand compliments his father too largely in this place by supposing Cipango and Hispaniola the same.
Continuing their course, and still attentively watching for signs of land, they saw this day an alcatraz, a rabo de junco, and other birds as formerly mentioned. On Thursday the twenty-seventh of September they saw another alcatraz coming from the westwards and flying towards the east, and great numbers of fish were seen with gilt backs, one of which they struck with a harpoon.
The next day, or rather in the same night, his Majesty's ship Rabo arrived, and the first tidings we had of it in the morning were communicated by Captain Qeuedechat himself, an honest, uproarious sailor, who chose to begin, as many a worthy ends, by driving up to the door of the lodging in a cart. "Is the Captain of the small schooner that was swamped, here?" he asked of Massa Pegtop.
It produces likewise a species of pepper of great strength, not inferior to any of that which the Portuguese bring from Calicut, under the name of Pimienta del rabo, or Pepe dalla coda, and which African pepper resembles cubbebs, but so powerful that an ounce will go farther than a pound of the common sort; but its exportation is prohibited, lest it should injure the sale of that which is brought from Calicut . There is also established on this coast a manufacture of an excellent kind of soap from palm-oil and ashes, which is carried on for the king's account.
A rabo de junco likewise flew past; the currents for some of the last days were not so regular as before, but changed with the tide, and the weeds were not nearly so abundant.
Friday the twenty-first another alcatraz and a rabo de junco were seen, and vast quantities of weeds as far as the eye could carry towards the north.
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