text:  Off the southern extremity of Ceylon the ship was again becalmed for several days; but the tedium of this interval was relieved not only by the ordinary sea incidents of the capture of a shark and the appearance of a whale (the zoological distinctions between which and the true fishes are stated by the khan with great correctness ) but by the occurrence of a mutiny on board an English vessel in company which was fortunately quelled by the exertions of the captain of the Edinburgh