1 64 Mr. WAFE Ks Voyages , 'Sic. 

 and then : No Trees, Herbs, or other 

 green Thing- Nor did we fee any fort 

 of Fowl, nor Beaft or other living Creature: 

 No People, nor fign of any 5 unlefs here 

 and there a poor Town or Village, at as 

 forry a Port, with fcarce Water enough, at 

 moft of them, to admit a Cock-boat, un- 

 lefs at a Flood : Elfe little or no Water, 

 nor any Thing for Accomodation or Ufe. 



Getting no Water at Copayapo, we were 

 forc'd to put to Sea again, and ftood along 

 Arm, the Coaft to Arica, which is a Town of 

 t or ^ r;/ > handfomely feated in the bending of 

 Mines of that Coaft,in the La t. of between 18 and 19 S. 

 htofi. Hither the Silver of Potcfi is brought down to 

 be fhipt off for Panama, for the Harbour is 

 tolerably good, having a Road made with 

 a little Ifland lying before it, breaking the 

 Swell of the Sea, which is here very great 

 and continually fowling in upon the Shore, 

 though fmooth as the Surface of a River, 

 here being little or no Wind to curl the 

 Waves. It dafhes fo violent againft the 

 the 4* Shore, which is all along a high bold- 

 dss Coaft, though nothing fohigh as the Moun- 

 tains far within Land, that there is fcarce 

 any Landing hereabouts but juft at'Arica it 

 felf There is a little River which Arlca. 

 ft and s upon, and we would have taken in 

 * Water there $ but there was no getting at 

 any frefh, for its Outlet was among lMle 

 craggy Rocks, and th& Sea-water daftia iS 



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