the SouthSea. 87 



and eleven Foot long, that is, nine or ten French Meafure, 

 to which all the former are to be reduced. 



I have thought fit to make this little Digreflion, to juftify 

 a Matter of Fad which is fufpe&ed of Falfhood, tho' the 

 reading of Holy Writ and Hiftorians, and the Examples 

 of Giants we often enough fee born and living among us, 

 ought to difpofe us to believe fomething extraordinary. 

 I return to the Account of my Voyage. 



They added to the News of the Revolt of the Indians of 

 Chiloe, that a French Veffel, which put into that Ifland, 

 had fupply'd the Spaniards with Powder againft the Indi- 

 ans. That Circumftance made us believe it was the Mary, 

 which we loft about Cape Horn; but we underftood foon 

 after, that (lie was put into Baldivia. At laft, on the 8th 7"^ Mary 

 of Auguft, flie came and join'd us at La Conception. P m th€m * 



They inform' d us, that, after having run thro' much 

 foul Weather, they had found themfelves on the Ifland of 

 Diego Ramirez, at the Time when they reckon' d them- 

 felves 80 Leagues to the Weft ward of it,- by the Manu- 

 script- Charts, and 60 Leagues by the Printed, and two 

 Degrees more to the Northward than they really were : 

 But having corrected their Errors upon that View of Land, 

 they had arrived very exa&ly at Baldivia, by Pieter Gooses 

 Charts ; which confirms the Conje&ures I made before, in 

 relation to the Currents. 



Notwithftanding the continual Rains, we had already 

 laid in our Provifions when the Mary arriv'd ; it only re- 

 main'd to do the fame for her ; when, the Oidor or Judge 

 of La Conception receiv'd Orders from the Prefident o( Chi- 

 li to oblige all the French Ships that were in the Road, up- 

 on what Pretence foever, to depart, and that within four 

 Days at the fartheft > but thofe Orders were not much re- 

 garded, being given on Occafion of a notable Piece of Gal- 

 lantry. The Concord did not fail till the 19th of July for 

 Valparaiso, and the Mary Anne the 20th for Hilo ; and 

 we ftaid there fome Days longer to make afl Bad of our 

 Bufinefs. 



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