2g6 A VOY AG E TO Book IX. 



day put to fea, flteering onr courfe for Chili. The 

 two frigates kept company till the nth of Novem- 

 ber, when they fcparated in the latitude of 33^, 40', 

 the Lys being obliged tp touch at Valparaifo, whilft 

 the Deiivrance continued her courfe for Conception- 

 bay, where Ihe came to an anchor on the 21ft of 

 November. This voyage was remarkably ihort, being 

 performed in twenty-nine natural days. What greatly 

 contributed to this expedition was, that having put to 

 fea at the end of winter, we fell in with fome breezes 

 at N. which carried us to the fouthward, and faved us 

 the trouble of {landing fo far out to fea, as muft be 

 done when the fummer is advanced. - 



In this bay we found the Louis Erafme frigate, 

 which had waited there fome time, in order to fail in 

 cornpany Vv^ith us ; and on the 6th of January, 1745, 

 we were joined by the Lys, accompanied with another 

 } rerxh Ibip, caileci la Marquis d' Antin, which hav- 

 ing come hither as a regiller fhip, had taken in a 

 loading of cacao at Guayaquil, and was in her return 

 %o Europe. The fcafon being far advanced, our little 

 fquadron put to fea the firflifair wind, which happened 

 on the 27th of January, when about ten in the morn- 

 ing we all got under fail, fleering W. and W. one 

 quarter northerly, accordingly as the winds would per- 

 niit, which were continually varying from S. W- to S. 

 S.E. On the fourth of February we found ourfelves ii^ 

 the latitude of 35% 21', and 9% 38^ weft of the me- 

 ridian of Conception j when the wind blowing frefh a| 

 S.W. by W. v/e tacked in order to ftand to the fouth? 

 ward. The next day we v/ere informed that a very dan- 

 gerous leal^ had been difcovered in the head of the Lys, 

 fUid that it was fo far under water as not to be flopped 

 without going into fome harbour and lightening thq 

 fhip • which had determined the captain to run into 

 fome of the harbours of Chili in order to flop the 

 leak ; accordingly he left the reft of the fleet the fam^ 

 day. The pelivr^nc^Cj on board qf whicli^ J eipba.rked. 



