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the feveral inhabited places in this kingdom, as I thought proper to infert their names, 

 I fhall conclude with a concife lift of all thefe places, which will affift the reader in 

 forming fome idea of this country. 



Recapitulation of all the inhabited Places in the Kingdom of Terra Fir ma. 



Four fortrefles. 



Six cities. 



One town of Spaniards and Indians. 



C Eleven of Spaniard and Indians. 



Thirty-five villages - - < Two of Mulattos and Negroes. 



C Twenty-two of Indians, moft of them Dodrinas. 



Thirty-two Rancherias or hamlets, each containing feveral cottages fcattered among 

 the breaches, along the fides of rivers and favannahs. 



Forty-three iflands, where the pearl-fifhery is carried on, fome of them in the bay of 

 Panama, fome near the coaft of that city, and others fouth of Veraguas. 



BOOK IV. 



VOYAGE FROM PRRICO HARBOUR TO GUAYAQUIL. 



CHAP. I. — Voyage from Perico to the CHy of Guayaquil, 



OUR tents and other neceflaries being ready, we all embarked on board the St. Chrif- 

 topher, captain Don Juan Manuel Morel ; and the next day, being the 2 2d of Fe- 

 bruary 1736, we fet fail ; but having little wind, and that variable, it was the 26th at 

 funfet before we loft fight of the land, the laft we faw being Punta de Mala. 



By remarks repeatedly made till we loft fight of this laft point, and which agreed 

 with obfervations, but differed from thofe by account, we found the fetting of the cur- 

 rent to be fouth-weft 5'' wefterly ; which obfervation correfponded with the accounts 

 given us by able pilots, who aflured us it continued to three or four degrees of latitude ; 

 and, according to their farther information, we corrected our daily account at one mile 

 and one fixth per hour ; and found their information to be well founded. But it is 

 neceffary to obferve, that, till our fhip was off Punta de Mala, there was no vifible cur- 

 rent ; and that, whilft we continued failing in the gulf of Panama, the latitude by 

 account agreed with the obferved. 



From the time we fet fail, till Punta de Mala bore from us north-weft 6° 30' wefterly, 

 we continued to fteer S. S. W. 1° 30' and 8^ 30' wefterly: the winds variable with 

 calms. 



After paffing Punta de Mala, we fteered S. between 8° wefterly and 2° 30' eafterly, 

 till fix in the evening of the firft of March 1736, when we difcovered the land conti- 

 guous to St. Matthew's bay. Upon which we ftood to the S. W. to avoid a ledge of 

 rocks, which runs three leagues into the fea, and alfo the currents, which fet towards 

 it, and Gorgona bay. 



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