the South -Sea. X27 



Ipurchafe the Frovifions we wanted, relying on the Hopes 

 that the Peace would be foon concluded, and that no more 

 Ships coming from Trance^ we could not fail of retrieving 

 the Trade, and making our Advantage of the laft Oppor- 

 tunity of coming into thofe Seas. On thefe vain Notions, 

 the Captains, Gardin^ Battar y and le Brun y agreed among 

 themfelves for three Months, engaging to one another, 

 upon Forfeiture of ,50000 Crowns, not to fell their Goods 

 binder a certain Price agreed on in their Contract ; but all 

 thofe Precautions did not prevail on the Merchants, 



At length, Winter beginning to bring on the North 

 Winds, we one Day found by Experience how high thofe 

 Winds, tho' then weak, made the Sea run in the Road,- 

 by which we guefs'd what would be in foul Weather, and 

 .did not think fit to ftay any longer there, to avoid running 

 any Hazards. 



Departure from Valparaifo. 



WE faiPd from Valparaifo on Thurfday the 1 1 th of May 

 1 713, to go and winter at Coquimbo^ where Ships 

 are fafe from all Winds. A frefli Gale at South, which 

 had carry'd us out, held but 24 Hours 5 then the North 

 Wind came upon us fo violent, that one Day, in that 

 which they call the Pacifick Sea, we were obliged to take 

 in all our Sails during eight Hours, the Sea running high, 

 the Weather dark, with Thunder and Lightning. A Re- 

 mark againft Father Ovalle, who fays, there is never any 

 in Chili however, every Night regularly the Weather grew 

 fairer, even to a Calm: Thus that Paffage, which is ufu- 

 ally perform'd in 24 Hours, held us nine Days. At length 

 the Wind coming again to South, we made the Bay ofiongoy Bag 

 Tongoy^ remarkable for a little Hill, call'd Cerro del Guam- Cerro del 

 quero^ and for a Point of Low- Land, call'd Lengua de Vaca^ Guanaquero 

 or Neats-Tongue, which clofes that Bay to the Weftward. Lengua de 

 The Land of the Coaft, tho' indifferently high, looks atVaca^r. 

 25 or 30 Leagues Diftance out at Sea, as if it was o- 



v^rflow'd, ; 



