33^ A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



C H A P. IV. 



Voyage from Fernando de Norona. Engagement 

 with two Englijh privateers. 



/^N our arrival in the harbour of this iiland, our firíl 

 ^^ care was to repair the Delivrancc; but upon exa- 

 mination, her condition was found fo bad, that to have 

 entirely completed her would have occafioned too 

 great a delay. It was therefore thought proper to re- 

 pair her only fo far, as was neceffary againil the danger 

 .and fatigue of being continually at the pumpj and ac- 

 cordingly, when we came to fea we found, that inftead 

 of repeating that fatiguing operation every half hour, 

 once in an hour Vv'as now fufiicient. 



Havjng taken in the neceíTary fupplies of wood and 

 water, with fome calves and hogs, it was determined 

 to proceed to fea with all expedition, in order to re- 

 trieve in fome meafiire, the delay which the repairs, 

 however flight, of the Delivrance had occafioned. June 

 the loth at ten in the morning the frigates got under fail, 

 and fteered N. 5 eafterly till June the i8th, when they 

 were in the latitude of 8 deg. i amin. N. and 43 deg. 

 27 min. E. of Conception, having croiTcd the line on 

 the 1 2th, under the meridian of 42 deg. 45 min. E. of 

 that city, and 32 deg. 47 min. W. of Paris. We had 

 frefh gales at S. till we came into the latitude of 6 deg, 

 N. where the wind abated and became variable; fome- 

 times at N. N. E. and N.E. and at other times E. S. E. 

 and E. N. E. but never blov/ing v.'irh any ftrength till 

 the 8th of July, when, having fteered N.E. and N. 

 we found ourfelves in 34 deg. 31 min. N. lat. and 31 

 deg. 23 min. E. of Conception, where what little wind 

 we had ihifted to S. S. W. and S.W. From the 8th to 

 the 31ft of July we fteered N.E. and N.E. Jnorcherly, 

 except three days, when we ran E.N.E. and one day 

 N.W. ^ northerly, being forced to alter our true courfe 

 by the winds, which veered to the N, and N. E. 



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