Ch.VI. south AMERICA. 



CHAP. VL 



Don George Juan's Voyage from la Coisr- 

 CEPTioN to GuARico in the I/land of San 

 Domingo; and from thence to Brest i?z 

 France, together with his return to Ma- 

 drid. 



THE frigate la Lys, having on the fifth of Fe- 

 bruary, parted company from the three others, 

 on account of her making fix inches water every 

 hour, which would naturally increafe by the working 

 of the fliip, (leered diredly for Valpar^ifo, where 

 making all poiTible difpatch in careening and water- 

 ing, on the lirfl of March (lie was ready to put to fea. 

 The winds, as is ufual at that feafon, being an S. and 

 S. W. the Lys was obliged to (land to the northv/ard 

 of the iiland of Juan Fernandes and drive till flie 

 was in the latitude of 32 deg. 18 min. where fhe fell 

 in with a wind at S. E. which carried her to the lati- 

 tude of 35 deg. and 11 min. weft of the meridian of 

 Valparailb ; here it fliifted to the S. VY. and thence 

 along the N. W. quarter to the N. in which time the 

 Lys only got into the latitude of 36^ 30' being the 

 17th day of the month. Here the wind veered to the 

 S. and S. W. blowing very hard, which caufed fucR a 

 fe-a that they were obliged to lie to under their main- 

 fail. On the 18th, though the violence of the wind 

 abated, it continued in the fame pointy afterwards it 

 changed to the W. and N. W. where it continued tilF 

 the (hip came into 40^ 30^ latitude, ftill keeping the 

 fame longitude of 11°. Here ilie met with a iecond 

 hard gale at fouth, which they weathered in the fame 

 m.anner, till it abated, iliifiing imim.ediately to tlie S. 

 VY. we'ft, and N. Y/. 



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