§04 A Voyage to Eookix, 



ihorc than nine degrees and a half, fiinding ourfelves in 

 the latitude of 25^ 55'; andbetween the twenty-eighth 

 and twenty-ninth degrees we were detained from the- 

 7th to the 15th without being able to make better 

 way. On the 29th of March we faw Pardelas and the 

 other kind of black birds. On the 30th we took 

 down our weather boards, and got our top-gallant- 

 ttiafts up. During this time the birds feemed to 

 tave enti^ly forfaken us ; but on the 3d of April, 

 "we faw great numbers and on the 5th and 6tb 

 %e faw a new fpecies, refembling a lark in fliape 

 and fize. Here we had alfo a firft fight of the 

 l)orados ; but from hence we never milled feeing 

 that fifh and alfo the Bonito. On the 8th, in the 

 latitude of 28^ 58', we began to meet with very ' 

 thick fogs, violent and frequent fqualls of wind 

 and rain, which continued with little or no inter- 

 miffion to the X3th, but that day proving fair, we 

 made ufe of it in getting up and mounting our 

 guns. The carpenters and caulkers were ordered 

 into the boat, to endeavour to flop the leaks at the 

 water's edge ; for though they had nailed flieet lead 

 Over the feams it did not anfv/er the pUrpofe, the water 

 'nearly iffuing with the fame rapidity. On the i8th, 

 'being in the latitude of 26° 52^, we firft faw the fiy- 

 ing-fitii, and Taburones, but afterwards we had con- 

 tinual fight of them, their numbers increafing in pro- 

 portion as we leflened our latitude. 



Ii^ the latitude of 39^ 14.' on the 25th of March, 

 'l)on Pedro de Arriago, freighter both of the Louis 

 Erafme, and la Deiivrance, made an offer to the 

 captains, that if they thought it neceflary, provi- 

 fions and water growing fcarce, they might put into 

 the harbour of Monte Video, where they mighii 

 'not only refit the fhips, and provide them with all 

 necelTaries, but alfo take the benefit of a convoy, 

 the Afia man of war being to fail for Spain about 

 that time, with commodore Don Jofeph Pizarro; 



adding! 



