Ch.I. south AMERICA. 



BOOK VIII. 



Return from Lima to Quito: Voyage from 

 Callao to GuA YAQjLJiL, yir putting that 

 City in a Pofure of Defence againft the At^ 

 tack apprehended jromthe English Squadron^ 

 under Commodore Anson. Second Voyage t& 

 Lima, and from thence to the Ijland of ]\] am 

 F^KNANDES, and the Coaft of y with 



an Account of that Kingdom^ and the adjacent 

 Sea, and return to the Port of Call ao. 



CHAP. L 



Voyage from Callao z^? Pa it a, with naiLtlcal 

 Remarks. 



THE time of our flay at Lima and Callao was 

 taken up in the diligent execution of fes^eral 

 commiffions with which the Vice-roy had been 

 pleafed to honour us, for putting the coaflis, and 

 other parts of that kingdom in s^ie bed poflure of 

 defence ; that in cafe an Engliih fquadron ilionld 

 ^lake any attack*, fo a vigorous refiftance might 

 difcourage any farth^er attempt of that nature. Hav- 

 ing made the necefTary difpofitions to the Vice-roy's 

 fatisfadion, and four men of v/ar which had been 

 fent at the beginning of the fummer to cruize off 

 the coaft of Chiii, in order to attack the Englifa 

 fquadron at their firft appearance, being returned 

 without the leaft information of any foreign ihips 

 having been feen in thofe feas j and the feafon of 



* At this dme Spain and England were at war. 



the 



