286 BASHI AND BABUYAN ISLANDS. 



with fugitive loyalists from Peru, lately touched 

 here ; they were bound for Manilla ; but the 

 crews of both ships mutinied, put the officers 

 and passengers ashore, and returned to Peru to 

 make common cause with the insurgents. 



After remaining four days before Agadna, 

 we took in our provisions, for which ten times 

 the price was demanded that we had paid here 

 eight years ago, and left Guaham on the 22nd 

 of October, directing our course for the Bashi 

 Islands, as I intended to pass through their 

 straits into the Chinese Sea, and then sail direct 

 to Manilla. On the 1st of November, our 

 noon observation gave 20° 15' latitude, and 

 236° 42' longitude, so that we were already in 

 the neighbourhood of the Bashi and Babuyan 

 Islands. We continued to sail so briskly till 

 sunset, that we could not be then far from land ; 

 but black clouds had gathered over it, conceal- 

 ing it from our view, and presaging stormy 

 weather; we did not venture therefore to ad- 

 vance during the night, but tacked with sails 

 reefed, waiting the break of day. At midnight 

 we had some violent squalls from the north 

 with a ruffled sea, but not amounting to a 



