Ch. I. SOUTH AMERICA. 141 



BOOK IV. 



Voyage from Perico Harbour to Guayaquil, 



CHAP. I. 



Voyage from Perico to the City of Guayaquil. 



OUR tents and other neceíTaries beino; ready, wc 

 all embarked on board the St. Chriñopher, cap- 

 tain Donjuán Manuel Morel ; and the next day, be- 

 ing the 2 2d of F'ebruary 1736, we fet fail ; but having 

 little wind, and that variable, it was the 26th at fun- 

 fet before we loft ñght of the land, the laft we faw 

 being Punta de Mala. 



By remarks repeatedly made till we loft iigbt of this 

 laft point, and which agreed with obfervations, but 

 differed from tliofe by account, we found the fetting of 

 the current to be S. W. 5° wefterly ; which obferva- 

 lion correfponded with the accounts given us by able 

 pilots, who aíTured us it cohtinued to 3 or 4 degrees 

 of latitude ; and, according to their farther informa- 

 tion, we corrected our daily account at one mile and 

 one fixth per hour ; and found their information to be 

 well founded. But it is neceflary to obfcrve, that, 

 till our ihip was off Punta de Mala, there was no vifi- 

 ble current ; and that, whiift \sie continued tailing in 

 the gulf of Panama, the latitude by account agreed 

 with the obferved. 



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