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BOOK VIII. 



RETURN FROM LIMA TO QUITO ; VOYAGE FROM CALLAO TO GUAYAQUIL, FOR PUTTING 

 THAT CITY IN A POSTURE OF DEFENCE AGAINST THE ATTACK APPREHENDED FROM 

 THE ENGLISH SQUADRON, UNDER COMMODORE ANSON. SECOND VOYAGE TO LIMA, 

 AND FROM THENCE TO THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDES, AND THE COAST OF 

 CHILI : WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THAT KINGDOM, AND THE ADJACENT SEA, AND 

 RETURN TO THE PORT OF CALLAO. 



CHAP. I. — Voyage from Callao to Paita, with nautical Remarks, 



TPHE time of our flay at Lima and Callao was taken up in the diligent execution of 

 -■- feveral commiffions with which the viceroy had been pleafed to honour us, for 

 putting the coalls and other parts of that kingdom in the befl pofture of defence ; that 

 in cafe an Englifh fquadron fhould make an attack *, fo a vigorous refiftance might 

 difcourage any farther attempt of that nature. Having made the neceffary difpofitions 

 to the viceroy's fatisfadion, and four men of war which had been fent at the beginning 

 of the fummer to cruize off the coaft of Chili, in order to attack the Englifh fquadron 

 at their firft appearance, being returned without the leafl information of any foreign 

 fhips having been feen in thofe feas ; and the feafon of the year now inclining to winter, 

 when every one was of opinion, that it was utterly impracticable for Mr. Anfon and 

 his fhips to get round Cape Horn that year, if (as indeed we concluded) he had not 

 already performed it ; we defired leave, as our longer flay could be of no fervice, to 

 return to Quito, in order to profecute the original defign of our voyage. This leave we, 

 with fome difficulty, obtained ; by reafon of the great want of officers in Peru, and 

 the certain advice the viceroy received, that the Spanifh fquadron, under the command 

 of Don Jofeph Pizarro, had not been able to get round Cape Horn. But at length, 

 convinced that our flay would greatly retard the execution of His Majefty's particular 

 commands, and confident that on any fudden exigency he would find the fame alacrity 

 in us to obey his orders, he was pleafed to grant our requefl, and difmiffed us in the 

 mofl polite manner. 



There happened at this time to be one of the largefl merchant fhips trading in the 

 South Seas, at Callao, jufl ready to fail for Guayaquil, called the Chaldas.' On board 

 this fhip we embarked on the 8th of Augufl 1741, and on the 15th of the fame month 

 anchored at Paita : continued our voyage from thence on the i8th, and on the 2ifl 

 entered the harbour of Puna. We immediately fet out for Guayaquil, and from 

 thence continued our journey for Quito, which we reached on the 5th of September. 



The courfe generally fleered from Calloa to Paita, is firfl wefl-north-wefl till the fhips 

 are pafl the Feralones t of the ifland of Guara. From thence north- wefl and north- 

 wefl one quarter northerly, to a latitude a little beyond the outermofl ifland of Lobos, 

 or Wolves. Afterwards they fleer north and north-eafl, till they make the continent 

 withm them, and which is continued in fight till they arrive at the port of Paita ; being 

 very careful to keep at a proper diflance from Ogujia, which is very low, and pro- 

 je(5ling a great diilance into the fea. Accordingly cautious navigators, after paffing 

 the iflands of Lobos, fleer a north courfe till they get fight of that of Nonura. . 



■'• At this time Spain and England were at war. 



t The Feralones are two old walls on the ifland of Guara, and ferre as light-houfcs, 



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