336 AVOYAGETO Book IX. 



CHAP. IV. 



Voyage from Fernando de Norona. 

 gagement with two ILnglifh privateers^ 



ON our arrival in the harbour of this ifland, our 

 firfl care was to repair the Deiivrance but 

 upon examination, her condition v/as found fo bad, 

 that to have entirely compleated her would have occa- 

 fioned too great a delay. It was therefore thought 

 proper to repair her only fo far, as was neceffary 

 againft the danger and fatigue of being continually 

 at the pump and accordingly, when v/e came to fea we 

 found, that inftead of repeating that fatiguing opera- 

 tion every half hour, once in an hour was now fufficient. 



Having taken in the neceffary fupplies of wood and 

 water, with fome calves and hogs, it was determined 

 to proceed to fea with all expedition, in order to retrieve, 

 in fome meafure, the delay which the repairs, howe- 

 ver flight, of the Deiivrance had occafioned. June the 

 loth at ten in the morning the frigates got under fail, 

 and fleered N. 4- eaflerly till June the i8th, when they 

 were in the latitude of 8 deg. 12 min. N. and 43 deg. 

 27 min. E. of Conception, having croiTed the line on 

 the 1 2th under the meridian of 42 deg. 45 min. E. of 

 that city, and 32 deg. zj.7 min. W. of Paris. We had 

 frefli gales at S. till we came into the latitude of 6 deg. 

 N. where the v/ind abated and became variable fome- 

 times at N. N. E. and N. E. and at other times E. S. 

 E. and E. N. E. but never blowing v/ith any flrength 

 till the 8th of July, when, having fleered N. E. and N. 

 we found ourfelves in 34 deg. 31 min. N. lat. and 31 

 deg. 23 min. E. of Conception, where what little wind 

 we had fliifted to S. S. W. and S. W. From the 8th to 

 the 31(1 of July we fleered N. E. and N. E. northerly, 

 except three day.-., when we ran E. N. E. and one day 

 I'n^ W. ~ northerly, being forced to alter our true courie 

 by the winds, which veered to the N. and N. E. 



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