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more than nine degrees and a half, finding oiirfelves in 

 the hicltude of 25° 55 ; and between the twenty-eighth 

 and twenty- ninth degrees we were detained from the 

 7th to the i5ih wirf'.aiit being able to make better 

 way. On the cpth of March we faw Fárdelas and the 

 other kind of black birds. On the 30th we took 

 down our weather boards, and got our topgallant-^ 

 mafts up. During this time the birds feemed ro 

 have entirely forjaken us i but on the 3d of April, 

 we faw great numbers; and on the 5rh and 6th 

 we faw a new fpecies, refembling a lark in ihape 

 and fize. Here we had alfo a firfl: fight of the 

 Dorados i but from hence we never milfed feeing 

 that fifli and alfo the Bonito. On the 8th, in the 

 latitude of 2b° 58', we began to meet with very 

 thick fogs, violent and frequent fqualls of wind 

 and rain, which continued with little or no inter- 

 mifiion to the 13th, but that day proving fair, we 

 made ufe of it in getting up and mounting our 

 guns. The carpenters and caulkers were ordered 

 into the boat, to endeavour to flop the leaks at the 

 water's edge; for though they had nailed flieet lead 

 over the feams it did not anfwer the purpofe, the water 

 nearly iñuing with the fame rapidity. On the i8th, 

 being in the latitude of 26° 52', v^^e firil faw the fly- 

 ing-fiih, and Taburones, but afterwards we had con- 

 tinual fight of them, their numbers increafing in pro- 

 portion as we IciTencd our latitude. 



In the latitude of 39° 14' on the a 5th of March, 

 Don Pedro de Arriago, freighter both of the Louis 

 i.raime, and la Delivrancc, made an offer to the 

 captains, that if they thought it necefiary, provi- 

 fions and water growing fcarce, thty migh: put into 

 the harbour of Monte Video, where they might 

 hot only refit the fhip-s and provide them with all 

 necellarics, but alfo take the benefit of a convoy, 

 the Afia man of war being to fail for Spain about 

 that time, with commodore Don Jofeph Pizarroi 

 6 adding, 



