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r§afon for this advice is, that Martin de Aguilar had difcovered a 

 river in this latitude, where they hoped confequently to water, 

 and repair their veffels e .] 



We proceeded on our voyage therefore with brilk winds from 

 the N. & N. N. E. the fea running high till the 30th, when 

 the new moon happened during which interval we made many 

 tacks, and did not accurately obferve our longitude or lati- 

 tude. 



On this fame day we had gentle breezes between N. W. & 

 S. W. varying thus for the three following days, after which 

 the wind was Heady in the W. N. W. and blew frefher as the 

 moon increafed. 



On the firft of June one of our feamen was fo drunk with 

 fpirits that we thought it right to remove him to the frigate f , 

 where he afterwards died in lefs than fix hours. On the fame 

 day we obferved fome fea-weeds, the top of which much refem- 

 bled an orange g , from the upper part of which hung large and 

 broad leaves. 



At the extremity of this plant is a very long tube, which fixes 

 to the rocks on the coaft till it is loofened by the fea, when it 

 often floats to the diftance of 100 leagues. We named this plant 

 the Orange- head. 



The next day we faw another plant, with long and narrow 

 leaves like a ribband, which is called Zacate del Mar ; we alfo 

 faw many lea-wolves, ducks, and fifh. 



e In the account of this voyage in 1601, added to Venegas's Hiftory 

 of California, this river is faid to have been difcovered by the pi'ot 

 Lopes, and not by Martin de Aguilar. In fome maps it is placed in 

 45 N. Lat. 



f Becaufe there was a furgeon on board that fhip, probably. 

 5 Una naranja. 



On 



