C 8 ) 



We had for fome time been fenfibla 

 of our approach to the land, from no 

 other tokens than thofe of weeds '^Uid 

 birds, which are the ufual indications 

 of nearing the coafl ; but at length we 

 had an imperfect view of an eminence, 

 which we conjedured to be one of the 

 mountains of the Cordilleras, This, 

 however, was not fo diftincTily feen but 

 that many conceived it to be the efFeft 

 of imagination : but if the captaia 

 was perfuaded of the nearnefs of our 

 danger, it was now too late to remedy 

 it ; for at this time the ftraps of the fore 

 jeer blocks breaking, the fore-yard came 

 down ; and the greateft part of the men 

 being difabled through fatigue and fick-' 

 nefs, it was fome time before it could 



(C. 7.) ; and from the conduf^: of the commodore (C. 10.) 

 who cruized (with the utmoft hazard) more than a fort- 

 night ofF the ifle of Socoro, and along the coa{l in it^ 

 neighbourhood. It was the fecond rendezvous at Baldivia, 

 and not that at Socoro, that the commodpre was forced by 

 lieccffity to negled. 



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