Ch. T, south AMERICA. a$5 



BOOK IX. 



Voyage from Callao /í» Europe; iiith an Jc count of 

 the Voyage from Conception in Chili to the IJland 



^FhRNANDO DE NORONA, CaPE BrETON, NEW- 

 FOUNDLAND, and Portsmouth //¿England: and 

 from the fame Harbour in the Southfea to Cape 

 Francois in St. Domingo, and from thence to Brest 

 in Franc; . 



C H A P. I. 



Departure '^frcm Callao. Arrival at the Bay of 

 Co\crpTioN. Voyage from tbtnce to Fernando 



DE NORON 



TJAVING, as I have already obferved, deter- 

 mined on the voyage for returning to Spain;, 

 on our arrival at 1 ima, in the year 1744, we were 

 informed that two of the French frigates. Notre Darnc 

 de la Delivrance and the Lys lay at Callao, and were 

 foon to fail. Such a favourable opportunity was not 

 to be milfcd, and accordingly Don George juan and 

 myfelf agreed for our piiffage, and alfo to make the 

 voyage in leparate {hip.-, that one at lealt mi^ht efcape 

 the dangers to be apprehended in fo long a voyage; 

 there being thus the greater prohabiiity that one might 

 reach his country, and there give an account of our 

 proceedings with regard to the commiffion with which 

 we had been honoured. 



The viceroy had given us leave to return with the 



greateft marks of efteem i and the ihips being ready 



we embarked on the 12a of Odober; and the fame 



U 4 day 



