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chanted with her delightful founds, we hoped 

 to continue in the fociety of our new com- 

 panion, durhig the remainder of the voyage : 

 but the night concealed us from each other, 

 and, when Aurora again opened the gates of 

 the eaft, we perceived, with ftrong regret, 

 that we had, already, to lament our harmonic 

 affbciate. 



When any ftrange veflel appeared in 

 fight, it, commonly, excited fome apprehen- 

 fion, from our being alone, and badly armed ; 

 but, fortunately, the wide ocean feemed to be 

 the path, only, of friends. In latitude 37 we 

 defcried a foreign fail, but we quickly difco- 

 vered that fhe was not of warlike afpefl:, 

 and, therefore, were defirous of fpeaking her, 

 in the hope of afcertainlng our longitude. 

 On approaching her, for this purpofe, we 

 hoifted our enfign as a fignal ; to which fhe 

 replied by a w^hite flag, with a red ftripe, im- 

 plying that fhe belonged to Spain. We were 

 pleafed to find her an ally ; and, employing 

 a Portuguefe, whom we chanced to have on 

 board, to hail her, we difcovered that fhe was 

 from the Havannah, bound to Malaga; but 



