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that night, and the following : but fearing that feme 

 Engliih privateers might be cruizing to v/indward of 

 Martinico, in order to avoid thern the Lys fteered for 

 the illand of Tobago, intending to go diredly from 

 thence to Martinico. On the 20th the colour of the 

 water became totally changed, fo as to refemble that 

 of a turbid river ; which they attributed to the iffue of 

 the Oronoco, though the mouth of that river is be- 

 twixt fixcy and feventy leagues didant; lying to in the 

 night they founded and found fixty fathom water, and 

 a muddy bottom. 



On the 29th, at half an hour after feven in the 

 morning, they made the idand of Tobago lying 

 weftward : and at noon law the little ifland of San 

 Gil, difcanc about two leagues from the N. K. from 

 the former : it bore S. three leagues and a half or four 

 leaoues off , and the latitude obferved at the fame 

 hour, was 0^36^ According to the obfervationa 

 of longitude tyken at Valparailo and Martinico, de- 

 dueling iTom thern that of the illand of Tobago, the 

 error in Don George Juan^s euimate was only thirty- 

 five leagues, which may rather be termed an inac- 

 curacy, being abundantly furlicient for, or at lead, 

 it was of a fufncient juftnefs in a voyage of fuch a 

 length ; and from it I conclude that they met with 

 no currents about Cape Horn ; though not above a 

 month before, v^^hen the Delivrance failed round the 

 Cape, we found them very flrong and confequently 

 they mAifl: foon after ceafe. The fame change was 

 obfervabie in the weather, and this partly occafioned 

 that of the currents, for though the wind was at 

 S. E. during that part of our voyage^ yet it was not 

 confiantly there, nor had we any of thofe hard gales 

 which the Lys met with : an evident proof that thofe 

 winds already prevailed tlierc and thus checked the - 

 courfe of the v/atcrs. keeping them in their eaftern fitu- 

 ation. 



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