192 A VOYAGE TO Book VIIL 



iho 3'eRr now iucHniiii^ to winter, Avlion cxcry onr 

 was of opinion, that it was iitteFly impracticabh for 

 Mr. Anson and his ships to get round Cape Morn 

 that vear, if .;( as indeed we conchidcd) he had not 

 iiheady performed it ; we desired leave, as onr Ioniser" 

 stay conld be of no service, to rcinrn to Quito, 

 in order <o proseeiitc the original design of olir. 

 voyage. This h^avc, we, witli some difficulty, ob- 

 tained ; by reason of the great want of oflicers irr 

 Pern and ihe certain advice tlic viceroy received, 

 that the Spanisli squadron, inider the command 

 of Don Joseph Pizarro, had not been able to get 

 round Cape Horn. But at length, convinced that 

 our stay would greatly retard tlie execution of his 

 majesty's ]^articular commands, and coirfident that on 

 any sudden exigency he wo aid lind the same alacrity 

 ill us to obey his orders, he was pleased to grant our 

 request, nnd dismissed us in the nmst polite manner. 



There hapi>ofted at this time to be one of the 

 largest merchant ships trading in the ?outh seas, at 

 Callao, just ready to sail fur Guayaquil, called the 

 Chaldas. On board this ship we embarked on the 8th 

 of August 1741, and on the !5th of the same month 

 ancliored at Paila ; coníinued our voyage from thence 

 on the IStn, and on t'ne 21 si entered the harbour of 

 Puna. We immediately set out for Guayaquil, and 

 from thence eonlinued our journey for Quito, which 

 we reached on tjie otli of September. 



The course generally steered from Callao to Paita, 

 is first W . N. W. till the ships are past tlie Feralone&* 

 of the island of Guara. From thence N. W. and N. 

 W. one quarter northerly ,io a latilude a little beyond' 

 the outermost island of Lobos, or Wolves. After- 

 wards they steer N. and N. E. till they make the 

 continent within them, and which is continued in sight 



* The Feralonc; arc two old walls on tlie isbnd of Guara, and 

 serve i-tTtglU- house?. 

 < ' till 



