3S^ A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



On the 25th, in the latttude of 46 degrees, they 

 met with a Horm at W. which obhged them to lie to 

 under a reefed mainfail. After ¡C3 greateft violence 

 v/as fpent, till the fourth of April, when they found 

 themlelves in 58° latitude and i eatt longitude from 

 Valparaifo, the firíl meridian for the courfe of the 

 yoyage, the wind ihifted from S. to S. W. W. and N. 

 varying alio in its force j and the fnip carrying fail ac- 

 cordingly. 



On the tenth, in the latitude of 5^ and 18° eafl: of 

 Valparaifo, they were furprizcd with a hard gale of 

 wind at S. and S. E. which obliged them to run un- 

 der their courfes. The force of the wind indeed ^^as 

 not fo great as in the two gales beforementioned ; but 

 was much more troublcfbme, being attended with very 

 thick fnow, and the cold intenfe. The wind abating 

 ihifted to the S. W. W. and N. W. whiift the ilnp 

 paiiing eafl: of Staten land, on the 26th was in the lat. 

 of 34° and long. 32 and 30^ Here they fell in with 

 winds at E. and S. E. which indeed are the brifas or 

 general winds. 



The flow progrefs of the voyage, and the heavi- 

 nefs of tlie (rigate, v/hich even in the moil favouiable 

 weather, never went above feven miles an hour, gave 

 room to apprehend, that it would be impoiTible to 

 reach the coaft of Spain, without putting in to fome 

 harbour for a frefli fupply of provifions; the captain 

 therefore reprcfented to the fupercargo, that no pbce 

 could be more proper for inch a purpole fhan Monte- 

 Video, being a Spanilh portj and that if they pafied 

 it, they fhoujd be cbhgcd to make ufe of one belong- 

 ing to. fome foreign power. But he, conformably to 

 the precife order of the regifter againlt putting into 

 any harbour, unlcls on the coall: of Spain, could not 

 be prevailed upon to comply with the captain's propo- 

 fali and accordingly the courJc v/as purfucd without 

 alteration. 



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