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CHAP. XI. 



Voyage from Valparaiso to Callao ; fecond 

 return to Quito to Jinijh the obfervations \ 

 third Journey to Lima, in order to return to 

 Spain by the way of Cape Horn. 



TH E fervice our fquadron was employed on be- 

 ing that of cruifing in thofe Teas, in queft of 

 the enemy as long as it Ihould be thought requifite, 

 the commodore, without flaying any longer than was 

 abfolutely nccefiary, came on board, and we imme- 

 diately put to fea, and feveral times vifited the iflands 

 of Juan Fernandes, till the 24th of June, 1743, when 

 we fhaped our courfe for Callao, which port we entered 

 on the 6th of July. The day following the commo- 

 dore and principal officers went on fhore, and were 

 received by Don Jofeph de Llamas, general of the 

 forces in Peru, and government of Callao \ who, on 

 account of the firft employment, refides at Lima, but 

 was comiC to Callao to compliment the commodore. 

 He attended him to Lima, and introduced him to the 

 vice-roy, who exprefied his great fatisfadion at his fafe 

 arrival after fuch long expedations. He was alfo met 

 on the road by the principal perfons of the city. 



After taking our departure from the ifland de 

 Tierra de Juan Fernandes, we fteered the three firft 

 days N. N. E. and N. E, one quarter northernly, hav- 

 ing frefli gales at W. and a heavy fea from the 

 S. W. When we came into the latitude of 28^, 30' 

 v;e fteered N. fix or feven degrees eafteriy, till the 

 third day at nine in the morning, when being in the 

 latitude of 16^, 28', we made the land on the coaft 

 of Chala ; and the day following, being the 4th, 

 the ifland of Sangallan, which at noon bore E. N. E. 

 diftance fix leagues. We then coafted along the 

 fhore J and on the 5th at noon, we faw the ifie of 



