32 OFF AT last! 



France or Spain ; lie now wrote him that if the govern- 

 ment persisted in sending him by Cape Horn, he would 

 meet him at Montevideo, Chili, or Lima, or wherever 

 else he should touch in the Spanish colonies. This 

 done he was ready to bid the Old World adieu. 



The English squadron was still off the harbor, but a 

 storm coming up on the 5th of June, it was obliged to 

 quit the coast, and make for the open sea. They seized 

 the opportunity and set sail, cheered by a pleasing 

 prophecy, from those who saw the Pizarro weigh anchor, 

 that they would certainly be captured in three days. 

 They sailed at two o'clock in the afternoon. The wind 

 was contrary, and they made several tacks before they 

 could get out of the harbor. At half-past six they 

 passed the lighthouse of Corunna, the famous Tower of 

 Hercules. At sunset the wind increased, and the sea 

 ran high. The shores of Europe lessened in the dis- 

 tance. The last thing they saw that night was the light 

 of a fishing hut at Sisarga. It faded. The land disap- 

 peared. The sea was before them, the wide waste Sea I 



