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that it deftroyed the Country for a confiderable way 

 along the Coaft. This Report when we came to 

 the Town, was confirmed to us by the Parifh-Prieft, 

 and many other Inhabitants of the Town. 



We continued thus rambling about to little Pur- 

 ofe, fometimes at Sea, and fometimes aflhore ; till 

 aving lpent much Time, and vificed many Places, 

 we were got again to the Gallapago's, under ther.G^. 

 Line ; and were then refolved to make the beft ofr^' 5 * 

 our Way out of thefe Seas. 



Accordingly we went thence again for the South- 

 ward, intending to touch no where till we came to 

 the Ifland of John Ferdinando* In our way thither, 

 about 4 a Clock in the Morning, when we were in 

 the Lat. of 12 Deg. 30 Min. S. and about 150 

 Leagues from the Main of America, our Ship and Earthy 

 Bark felt a terrible Shock 5 which put our Men irtuq^felt 

 to fuch a Confirmation, that they could hardly tell 

 where they were, or what to think ; but every one 

 began to prepare for Death. And indeed the Shock 

 was fo fudden and violent, that we took it for 

 granted the Ship had ftruck upon a Rock : But 

 when the Amazement was a little over, we caft the 

 Lead, and founded, but found no Ground ; fo that 

 after Confutation, we concluded it muft certainly 

 be fome Earthquake. The Suddennefs of this Shock 

 made the Guns of the Ship leap in their Carriages, 

 and feveral of the Men were (haken out of their 

 Hammocks. Captain Davis, who lay with his Head 

 over a Gun, was thrown out of his Cabbin. The 

 Sea, which ordinarily looks Green, feem'd then of 

 a whitifh Colour ; and the Water which we took 

 up in Buckets for the Ships ufe, we found to be a 

 little mixed with Sand, This at firft made us think 

 there was fome Spit of Sand hut when we had 

 founded, it confirmed our Opinion of the Earth- g^^. 

 quake. Some Time after we heard News, that at quake at 

 that very Time there was an Earthquake at Callao % caiu&b$ 



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