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that nightj and the fc^llowing: but fearing that fomc 

 Engliih privateers might be cruifing to windward of 

 Martinico, in order to avoid them the Lys Peered for 

 the iiland of Tobago, intending to go diredly from 

 thence to Martinico, On the aSth the colour of the 

 water became totally changed, fo as to refcmble that 

 of a turbid river; which they attributed to the ifllie of 

 theOronoco, though the mouth of that river is betwixt 

 fixty and levenry leagues, diitant; lying to in the nighc 

 they founded and found fixty fathom water, and a muddy 

 bottom. 



On the 29th, at half an hour after fevcn in the 

 morning, they made the ifland of Tobago lying 

 wcliward: and at noon faw the litde ifiand of San 

 Gil, diftant about two leagues from the N. E. frt3m 

 the former: it bore S. three leagues rmd a half or four 

 leagues off; and the latitude obl'erved at the fame 

 hour, was 11°, ,&'. According to the obfervations 

 of longitude taken at Valparaifo and Martinico, de- 

 ducing from tKem that of the iüand of Tobago, the 

 error in Don George Juan's eftimate was only thirty- 

 five leagues, which may rather be termed an inac- 

 curacy, being abundantly üjfíicient for, or at leaft, 

 it was of a fuflicienc juftnefs in a voyage of fuch a 

 length; and from it I conclude that they met with 

 no currents about Cape Horn ; though not above a 

 month before, when the Dclivrancc iailed round the 

 Cape, we found them very itrong; and confequently 

 they miUfl: foon after ceaie. The fame change was 

 obfervable in the weather, and this partly occafioned 

 that of the currents, for though the v^-ind was at 

 S. E. during that part of our voyjige, yet it was not 

 conftantly there, nor had we any ot thofe hard gales 

 which the Lys met with : an evident proof that thofe 

 winds already prevailed there ; and thus checked the 

 courfe of the waters, keeping tlicrn in their eailern 

 fituation. 



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