8 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



the moon. It is very difficult to make, at fea, 

 fuch an observation of it as can be relied on: 

 Citizen Willaumez, however, deduced from his, 

 1 8 59' 45" of weft longitude. 



The Efpcrance made the ilgnal for land on 

 the 12th, about eight o'clock, in the morning. 



At noon, we reckoned ourfelves fourteen 

 myriameters from the Peak of Teneriffe, which 

 was fcen to the fouth-eaft by fouth, majcftically 

 rearing its head above the clouds. 



On the approach of night, we were at the 

 * difiance of only two myriameters from the north- 

 cad point of the ifland. We kept {landing oh? 

 and on under our topfails, waiting for daylight. 

 As foon as it began to appear, we approached 

 the coafl, which we ranged along at the diitance 

 of a kilometer. 



We cafl: anchor about half part nine o'clock 

 in the morning on the 13th, in the road of 

 Santa Cruz, in ten fathoms water, over a bot- 

 tom of black muddy (and. 



Citizen Fonfpcrluis, the French Conful, im- 

 mediately came on board, and offered the Ad- 

 miral to do every thing that he could, towards 

 ng the wants of our two fhips. 



I went on more in the afternoon, in order to 



w the environs of the Although the 



ion was a!i iteration 

 ot lie tun, by the volcanic (tones, oc- 



cafioned 



