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the good fortune, at this time, to have 

 nothing to do with the governor or his 

 fort. The town is but a poor little 

 place ; there are, indeed, a good many 

 ftorehoufes bpilt by the water-fide for 

 the reception of goods from the iliip- 

 ping. 



About the 2o£h of December, 1744, 

 we embarked on board the Lys frigate, 

 belonging to Sr. Malo. She was a fliip 

 of four hundred and twenty tons, fi:?^- 

 teen guns, and fixty men. She had fe- 

 veral paflfengers on board 5 and amongft 

 the reft, don George Juan, a man of very 

 fuperior abilities (and fince that time well 

 known in England^ who with don Anto- 

 nio UUoa had been feveral years in PerUj, 

 upon a defign of meafuring fome de- 

 grees of the meridian near the equator. 

 We were now bound to Conception, iT\ 

 order to join three other French fliips 

 that were likewife bound home. As 

 this was a tirne of the year when the 



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