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from perfons who might not be fufficiently acquainted 

 with the nature of their defign. Accordingly the 

 commanders and diredors of the academy of the royal 

 Guardas Marinas received orders to recommend two 

 perfons, whofe difpofitions not only promifed a perfefl 

 harmony and correfpondence with the French academi- 

 cians, but who were capable of making, equally with 

 them, the experiments and operations that might be 

 neceflary in the courfe of the enterprize. 



Don George Juan, commander of Aliaga, of 

 the order of Malta, fub-brigadier in the Guardas Mari- 

 nas, equally diftinguifhed by his application to the ma- 

 thematics and his faithful fervices to the crown, was, 

 with myfelf, propofed to his majedy, as qualified to 

 contribute to the fuccefs of fuch an enterprizce We had 

 commiffions giv^en iis as lieutenants of men of war, and, 

 with ail neceflary inftrudions, were ordered to embark 

 on board two (hips fitting out at Cadiz, for carrying to 

 Carthagena, and thence to Porto-Bello, the marquis de 

 Villa-garcia, appointed viceroy of Peru. About the 

 fame time the French academicians were to fail in a fhip 

 of their nation, and, by way of St. Domingo, to join us' 

 at Carthagena, in order to proceed from thence in com- 

 pany. 



The two men of war on board of which we had 

 been ordered, were the Conquiftador of 64 guns, and 

 the Incendio of 50; the former commanded by Don 

 Francifco de Liano, of the order of Malta, commo- 

 dore, and the latter by Don Augufbin de Iturriaga, by 

 whom it was agreed that Don George Juan fhould 

 go in ths Conquiftador, and myfelf in the Incendio. 

 We failed from Cadiz-bay, May 26, 1735; but, the 

 wind fnifting, were obliged to put back and come to 

 an anchor about half a league without Las Puercas, 



On the 28th, the wind coming about to the N. E. 

 we again fet fail, and continued our courfe in the pnan- 

 iier related in the two following Journals. 



B 4 Journal 



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