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the laritudc by obfcrvation, was 8^ y\ and the ifland 

 of Defech-ro bore N." one quarter wefterly, diitant five 

 leagues. Hie two privateers, for fuch it is believed 

 they were, lay becalmed ; and this enabled the Lys to 

 keep at the famediftance as v/hen fiie firft difcovcred 

 them; and the v^And freihening to the N. about fun-fet, 

 file Itood E, N. E. in order to get clofe to the il^ore, 

 and thus avoid the two fuppofed privateers ; deter- 

 mined however to make a (lout refiftance, if they 

 Ihouid be obliged to come to that extremity. After- 

 wards the wind iLifted to E. N. E. and the privateers 

 continuing S. W. the Lys fleered northward and wea- 

 thered the iQand of Dffecheo about two leagues. The 

 wind afterwards frefhened, and at eleven at night the 

 Lys fpread all the canvas poffible, fleering N. W. and 

 by the 6th m the morning, had neither fight of the 

 land nor the privateers. 



On the 7th at fix in the morning they rnade old 

 cape Francois five leagues diftance they kept in with 

 the coafl, and at noon by obfervation found the lati- 

 tude 19^ 55' from which they concluded that of the 

 cape to be about 19° 40', and though the land which 

 projects into the fea be low, the inland parts appear ve- 

 ry mountainous. 



On the 8th at fix in the morning, cape la Grange 

 bore S. didant five leagues and by noon the frigate 

 being within three leagues of cape Francois harbour, 

 lay to with a fignal for a pilot, who being come a- 

 board, carried the Lys into the harbour, where fhe an- 

 chored at two in the afternoon, in eight fathom water 

 and a muddy bottom , about a quarter of a league 

 diftaht from the town. 



Variations of the needle obferved during the whole 

 courfe of the voyage, the longitude being taken from 

 the Meridian of Valparaifo. 



Latitude. 



