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covered, she was sent ovtt on a cruize ; and this beini!;; 

 ill the common track of ships bound from Oilko t@ 

 thfi coast of Chiii, they hid the i^ood fortune to tul^e 

 Isvo or three, all of them richly iadcn, paiiicidai^Ij 

 the Arauzaza, one of the larfj^est employed in these 

 ííeas, Gre.it niinibers of Rien died on the iskud of 

 Juan Fernandcs, but on the recovcTv of the reraarii- 

 der, &ná the ships beinix" careened, they :mnk llic vic- 

 iuailer, and some time after the frig-ate, puttiifjc tlie 

 fCiins find provisions on board the Aranzaza. After 

 tJiis the whole squadron ptit to sea «pon ñ'csíi enter- 

 prizes, and about eighl or lúuv vi^^ach CcW into tfet'L-r 

 h.ind< ; and between Paita and ilie island oí" Leboü, 

 they took íi coast ship of ^reat value. The sacking" 

 ejt Paita was the last act of hostility tlicy coninirtted 

 in these parts ; for tlie English commodore liaYÍng 

 procured íntellií!;cnec of the short lime requisite ■ii'i> 

 nlarni Guayaquil, and tinding that there iiad 'beca 

 íibnndantíy more than í^Vííhcienl, priuie\rily aliandon- 

 vd a de^riíTi, aírainst which he judged insiiperablc pre- 

 vantions had haen túívw ; and indeed h.td iie made ati 

 iittempt, hi all probability those spirits would have 

 been depressed, which were so greatly elc\ated at 

 their success at P?.ita. 



Aftkr. iefi>'ing Paita they steered for the coii^. 

 of Alania, where they pnt the prisons r^i they had 

 ♦aken in the m-erchant ?hips on board a lotig-boat. 

 to make the best of their wa\' to the huid ; the ship-; 

 keeping ten or twelve leagues from the shore ; but 

 many of the sailors, negroes, and malaítoeí-, who 

 ^lad nothing to lose, voluntarily entered with thcin- 

 They now determined to sail for the Phiiippinc>3, ia. 

 order to intercept the galleon in hct; return to thoss 

 islands, and whii:h was to sail froni Acapuko some 

 time in January. Tliis \\"as doubtless the most ad- 

 vahfageous scheme that could be fcnned in their 

 circumstances. But in this tlicv were disappointed 

 bv the viceroy of Mciico ; who, from the intelli- 



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