A VOYAGE TO 



Book V, 



XX. Signal on the defert of Chufa^. 



From Senegualap they proceeded to the defert of 

 vChufay, a ftation which gave thefe gentlemen no lefs 

 trouble than it had done us. Our company had nq 

 concern with the ftation on this defert ; for, according 

 to the alternative eftablifhed between the two compa- 

 nies, that of Senegualap was the place to which wq 

 were to repair. But after finifhing the obferyations at 

 Lalangufo, being uneafy at the long Hay of M. Go- 

 .din and Don George Juan at Qiiito, to divert our 

 thoughts by fome laborious empioymentj we divided 

 our company into two, in order to profecute the men- 

 , furation, till thofe gentlemen returned. Accordingly, 

 M. Bouguer, at the head of one detachment, went to 

 the fignal of Senegualap, and M. de la Condamine 

 and myfelf repaired to that of Ghufay. But M. Godin 

 and Don George Juan joining us there, we returned to 

 .our proper company, and the operations were continu- 

 ed in the order agreed on. 



XXI. Signal on the defert of Sinafaguan. 



This defert was one of thofe common to both com- 

 panies ; and that of Don George Juan remained on it 

 jill the 29th of May, when the obfervations of both 

 were finifhed. Thus every member of the two com- 

 panies equally fhared in the fatigues of the operationSj 

 and in the hardfliips unavoidable in fuch dreary regions,. 



XXIL Signal on the defert of Quinoaloma, 



The defert of Quinoalomaj like the former, may be 

 jclaiTed among the moft difagreeable flations in the 

 whole feries ; for though they repaired hither from Si- 

 pafaguan, it v/as the 3 ift of the fame month before they 

 ,CQuld finifh the obferv^ations relating to this fignal. 



In their road from Qiiinoaloma they paffed through 

 pht town of Asogues where leaving their inftruments 



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