(i96 A VOYAGE TO Book IX, 



day put to fea, íteering our courfe for Chili. The 

 two frigates kept con-!| any till the nth of November, 

 wh.n -hey :'; arated in the latitude of 33", 40', 

 the Lys bting obliged to touch at Va'paraiio, whilft 

 the D'^'ivrance ccnrirued her courfe for Conception- 

 bay , where fhc came to an anchor on the :'ill of 

 Nrvembor. This voyage wis rcrrarkably flioit, being 

 peiforr.icd in twenty-nine natural days, Whar greatly 

 contributed to this expedition va?. that having put to 

 fea at the end of winter, we fell in with fome breezes 

 at N. which cr.rried us to the fouthwi.id, and faved us 

 the trc'-.ble of ftanding fo far out to fea, as muft be 

 done when the fummer is advanced. 



li this bay we found the Louis Erafme frigate, 

 which had waited there iome time, in order to fail in 

 comp:'ny with us; and on the 6th of January, 1745, 

 v/e were joined by the Lys, accompanied with another 

 French finp, called la Marquis d'Antin, which having 

 cene hither as a rcgifter ihip, had taken in 4 

 loa' ling of cacao at Guayaquil, and was in her return 

 to Europe. The feafon being far advanced, our little 

 fquadron put to fea the firft fair wind, which happened 

 on the 27 th of January, when about ten in the morn- 

 ing we all got under fail, fleering W. and W. one 

 quarter northerly, according as the winds would per- 

 mit, which were continually varying from S. W. to 

 S. S.E. On the 4th of February we found ourfelves in 

 the latitude of 35° 21', and 9*, 38', vvcft of the me- 

 ridian of Conception ; when the wind blowing freih at 

 JS.W. by W. we tacked in order to fl:and to the fouth- 

 ward. The next day we were informed that a very dan- 

 gerous leak had been difcovered in the head of the Lys, 

 and that it was fo far under water as not to be (topped 

 without going into fome harbour and lightening the 

 ihipj which had determined the captain to run into 

 fome of the harbours of Chili in order to flop the 

 Jeak J accordingly he left the reft of the fleet the fame 

 «day. The Dclivrance, on board of which I embarked, 



was 



