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foiiers on board the Centurion. They 

 all fpoke in the higheft terms of the 

 kind treatment they had received ; and it 

 is natural to imagine^ that it was chief- 

 ly owing to that laudable example of 

 humanity our reception here was fo 

 good. They had never had any thing 

 but privateers and buccaneers amongft 

 them before, who handled their prifoners 

 very' roughly ; fo that the Spaniards in 

 general, both of Peru and Chili, had the 

 greateft dread of being taken by the 

 Englifh ; but fome of them told us, that 

 they were fo happy on board the Centu- 

 rion, that they fliould not have been 

 forry if the commodore had taken them 

 with him to England. 



After we had been here fome time, 

 Mr. Campbell changed his religion, and 

 of courfe left us. At the end of two 

 years, the prefident fent for us, and in- 

 formed us a French fliip from Lima, 

 bound to Spain, had put into Valparaifo, 



and 



