On the following day he was deprived of his office, and degraded to the rank of subordinate to a new steward.
5th January.

Mostly calms.

Our cook caught, today, a fish three feet long, and remarkable for the manner in which it changed colour.
When it came out of the water it was a bright yellow, to which colour it owes its name of Dorado.

At the expiration of one or two minutes the brilliant yellow changed into a light sky-blue, and after its death its belly again turned to a beautiful light yellow, but the back was a brownish green.

It is reckoned a great delicacy, but, for my own part, I found its flesh rather dry.
On the 9th of January we were off the Rio Grande.