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In tbe mean time, tlie fair Weather began to fiicceed 

 the Winter Rains and Winds, and the Hope of Trade 

 could not detain us at Lu Conception, becaufe, befides that 

 the two Ships above- nam'd, had furniflied the City with 

 what little Goods it had Occafion for, Champloret le Brun, 

 Captain of the AJJkmption, had been there ever fince the 

 24th of June, endeavouring to fell as much as would pay 

 for his Provifions i fo that we thought of failing, to g© 

 ^and trade in Peru. 



Departure fmm La Conception. 



TXTE-faird out of the Bay of Lu Conception, on the 30th 

 of Auguft, uncertain what Place to refort to; nothing 

 but the Defire of receiving fome Information made us put 

 into Valparaifo, where, nevefthelefs, we ltay'd above eight 

 hmi dtfco- Months, By the Way, we had continually the Winds con- 

 m/dZrdlf trai 7> weak or variable: We alfo obferv'd, contrary to 

 Valparaifo. what is ufual, that there are in thefe Parts fair and ferene 

 Days at the Time when the North-Wind prevails. Six 

 Days after our Departure, we difcoverM the Head call'd 

 Morro del Qbifpo, or, ?the Bijhops Head-land, two Leagues 

 to the Southward of Cape Curaoma, which is generally 

 made in order to get to the Windward of Valparaifo, to the 

 end that the ftrong Breezes at S. and S. W. may not drive 

 Ships from that Port, which it would be hard to recover, 

 without running far out to Sea. At five in the Evening, it 

 PUtc XII. appeard to us thus : 



It being then late, we would not venture to go into Val- 

 paraifo by Night, tho' the Opening of the Road is very 

 wide .j we took a Trip out to Sea, and the next Morning 

 making Land again, law the fame Head-Land, which al- 

 ters but little, becaufe it is high and round like a Bell. 



After turning Cape Curaoma, two Leagues to the N. E. 

 and by E. appears the Point of Valparaifo, which with that 

 Cape forms the Creek of Lagumlla, where no Ships an- 

 chor, becaufe the Bottom is naught. 



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