It feeds on small shrimps, climbs about the weeds like a lizard, and at times swims like a fish and is very rapid and strong in its motions.

It swells out the membranes about the spot where its gills ought to be, so as to puff itself out like a toad when it takes water in: its colour resembles that of the common English frog, and it looks remarkably like one when it sits on a piece of weed, resting on its claws and puffing out its cheeks.

There are several lines of red stripes at the bottom of its stomach.
We caught also a great many shrimps and crabs; some of the shrimps were boiled and proved to be very good eating.
August 30.
At 5 hours 30 minutes P.M.a pine tree passed us, covered with barnacles and surrounded by fish, which swam about this floating island, eating such things as fell from it.
No portion of the globe is more thickly inhabited, or affords, in proportion to its size, a greater amount of animal enjoyment than did this wave-tossed isle.

On it were innumerable barnacles, several species of teredo, one of which, having its head shaped like a screw split into two equal portions, I believe to have been quite new.

Many varieties of crab and minute insects shaped like a slug fed on the seaweed growing on the log.
These last animals were of different lengths.