Cu. I. SOUTH AMERICA. 191 



BOOK VIIÍ. 



Return from. Lima to Qiiifo .- Voijage from Callao 

 to Giiaijaqiiil, for •puttiiig that Cilij in a Posture 

 of Defence against the Attack apprehended from- 



■ :ihc English Squadron, under Commodore Anson. 

 Second Voyage to Lima, and from, thence to the 

 Island of Juan Fcrnandes, and the Coast of Chili: 

 7iHth an Account of that Kingdom, and the adja- 

 cent Sea, and return to the Port of Calhio. 



CHAP. i. 



Voyage from Callao to Palta, with nauiical Be- 

 marks. 



^T^FIE time of our stay at Lima and Callao Y/as 

 -^ taken up in the diligent execution of several 

 commissions with which the viceroy bad been 

 pleased to honour us, for putting the coasís and 

 other parts of that kingdom in the best pasture of 

 defence ; that in case an Eng;lish squadron should 

 make any attack,* so a vigorous resistance might 

 discourage any farther attempt of that nature. Hav- 

 ing made the necessary dispositions to the viceroy's 

 satisíacíion, and four men of war which had been 

 sent at the beginning of the summer to cruize off 

 the coast of Chili, in order to attack the English 

 squadron at their first appearance, being retv.rned 

 without tlie least information of any foreign ¡ship? 

 having been seen in those seas ; and the season of 



* At this time Spain and England v/ere at war. 



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