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BOOK IX. 



Voyage from Callao Europe ; with an Ac^ 

 count of theVoyagefrom Conception in Chih 

 to the IJland of Fernando de Norona, 

 CapeBreton,Newfoundland,^;zJPorts- 



■ mouth in England : and from the fame 

 Harbour in the South-feato Cape Francois 

 in St. Domingo, and from thence to Brest 

 in France. 



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C H A P. 1. 



'Departure from Callao^ Arrival at the Bay 

 ^Conception. Voyage from thence to Fer- 

 nando DE Norona. 



HAVING, as I have already obferved, deter- 

 mined on the voyage for returning to Spain \ 

 on our arrival at Lima, in the year 1744, we were 

 informed that two of the French frigates, Notre Dame 

 de la Delivrance and the Lys, lay at Callao, and were 

 foon to fail. Such a favourable opportunity was not 

 to be miffed, and accordingly Don George Juan and 

 myfelf agreed for our pafTage, and alfo to make the 

 voyage in feparate Ihips, that one at leaft might \ 

 efcape the dangers to be apprehended in fo long a 

 voyage ; there being thus the greater probability that 

 one might reach his country, and there give an 

 account of our proceedings with regard to the com- 

 miflion with which we had been honoured. 



The vice-roy had given us leave to return with the 

 ygreateft marks of cfteem ; and the fliips being ready 

 we embarked on the 22d of Oftober \ and the fame 



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