192 A VOYAGE TO BookVIII. 



the year now inclining to winter, when every one 

 was of opinion, that it was utterly impracticable for 

 Mr Anfon and his fhips to get round Cape Horn 

 that year, if (as indeed we concluded) he had not 

 already performed it we deHred leave, as our longer 

 Hay could be of no fervice, to return to Quito, 

 in order to profecute the original defign of our 

 voyage. I'his leave, we, with fome difficulty, ob- 

 tained ; by reafon of the great want of offi^:^rs 

 in Peru, and the certain advice the Vice-roy re- 

 ceived, that the Spanift fquadron, under the com.- 

 mand of Don Jofeph Fizarro, had not been able to 

 get round Cape Horn. But at length, convinced that 

 our {lay would greatly retard the execution of his 

 majefty's particular commands, and confident that 

 on any fudden exigency he would find the fame ala- 

 crity in us to obey his orders, he v/as pleafed to 

 grant our requeft, and difmiffed us in the moft po- 

 lite manner. 



There happened at tliis time to be one of the 

 largeft merchant fliips trading in the fouth feas, at 

 Callao, juft ready to fail for Guayaquil, called the 

 Chaldas. On board this fhip we embarked on the 8th 

 of Auguft 1741, and on the i^th of the fame month 

 anchored at Paita ; continued our voyage from thence 

 on the i8rh, and on the 2 lit entered the harbour of 

 Puna. We immediately fet out for Guayaquil, and 

 from thence continued our journey for Qiiito, which 

 we reached on the 5th of September. 



The courfe generally fleered from Callao to Paita, 

 is firfl W. N. V/. till the iliips are pall the Feraloncs^ 

 of the iiland of Guara. From thence N. W. and N. 

 W. one quarter northerly, to a latitude a little beyond 

 the outerm^ofl iOand of Lobos, or Wolves. After- 

 wards they ilecr N. and N. E. till they make the con- 

 tinent within them., , and which is continued in fight 



The Feialones are two old walls on the iHand of Guara, and 

 ferve as lights houfes. 



I till 



