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B O O K IV. 



Voyage from Perico Harbour to 



Guayaquil. 



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C H A P. L 



Voyage from Perico the City of Guayaquil, 



OU R tents and other neceflaries being ready, w€ 

 all embarked on board the St. Chriftopher, cap- 

 tain Don Juan Manuel Morel ; and the next day, being 

 the 22d of February 1736, wefetfailj but having 

 little wind, and that variable, it was the 2 6th at fun- 

 fet before we loft fight of the land, the lalt we faw 

 being Punta de Mala. 



By remarks repeatedly made till we loft fight of this 

 iaft point, and which agreed with obiervations, but 

 differed from thofe by account, we found the fetting of 

 the current to be S. W. 5^ wefterly, which obferva- 

 tibn correfponded with the accounts given us by able 

 pilots, who afilired us it continued to 3 or 4 degrees 

 of latitude ; and, according to their farther informa- 

 tion, we corredted our daily account at one mile and 

 one fixth per hour; and found their information to 

 be well founded. But it is neceflary to obferve, 

 that, till pur fliip was off Punta de Mala, there was 

 no vifible current; and that, whilft we, continued 

 failifig in the gulph of Panama, the latitude by ac- 

 count agreed with the obferved. 



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