10 A VOYAGE TO Book Í. 



TZ^íT Author^ s 'journal, en board the Incendio, 



HAVING fet fail on (he fame day, namely, the 

 28th of May 1735, and üeered S. between 52 

 and 56 deg. wefteriy, we perceived, on June 2, about 

 ÍÍK in the evening, the iñand of Savages, one of the 

 Canaries; and on the 3d we faw TeneriiFe. J found 

 the difference of longitude between Cadiz and Naga- 

 point to be 11° 6', which agrees with the Engliih. and 

 Dutch charts, but differs a little from the true longi- 

 tude determined by father Feuillée at Loratava, in the 

 fame ifland of Tencriffe, 



On the 4th, we had fight of the Iflands of Palma, 

 Gomera, and Per ; but again loil fight of them on the 

 rt^th. On the 20th, about noon,. we made Martinico, 

 and continuing our courfe, palTed between that ifland 

 and Dominica. The difference of longitude betvv'een 

 Martinico and Cadiz bay, according to my reckoning, 

 tvas 57° 5', one degree more than San Telmo's chart 

 makes it. But it is proper to obferve, that, in order 

 to efíimate my courfe, and avoid the danger of find- 

 ing a great difference at making land, I followed two 

 different calculations, one according to the meafures 

 commonly given by pilots to the diflance between the 

 knots on the log-line, of 47 Englifh ieet and a half, 

 and the other by reducing them to 47 royal feet ; for 

 though, in firiitnets, it ought (o have been 47 é of the 

 latter, the difference being but imall, I thought it beft 

 to omit the half foot, that my reckoning might be be- 

 fore the fhip. According to the iirft method, the dif- 

 ference of longitude between Cadiz and this ifland 

 was between 60 and 61 degrees, which* nearly agrees 

 whh the Journal of Don George. 



From Martinico we continued our courfe towards 

 Curafao, which v^-e had fight of July 5d. The differ- 

 ence 



