the South -Sea. 2,7^ 



Removal to another Ship, 



IT being my Duty to endeavoiir to return to France as 

 foon as poifible, becaufe the Time of my Leave drew 

 n^ear to an End, I contrived to get aboard the Ship that was 

 to fail firft, which was the Mary Anne of Marseilles ^ before 

 fpoken of, commanded by Monfieur PiJJbn, of the State of 

 Savoy y who was willing to take me aboard, and of whom 

 I received fo many Civilities, during the Voyage, that I can 

 never fufficiently commend that gallant . Man, as well as 

 Monfieur Roux, the Merchant of the fame Ship. 



Departure from Callao. 



IEmbarqued on Monday the 9th of Ofiober y and the next 

 Day., being the 10th, about Noon we faiPd for La Con- 

 ception, to take in the necelfary Provifions and Stores for 

 our Voyage, becaufe they are there better and cheaper than 

 at Callao. 



The 14th of the fame Month one of our Sailors died of 

 an Impoftume in his Stomach, which choakM him. The 

 15th, after having fail'd four Days without an Obfervation, 

 we found ourfelves One, and according to fome, Two De- 

 grees farther to the Southward, than our Reckoning, in 

 about 17 > whence we concluded, that it was the Effeift of 

 the Currents. The three Ships which came out after us, 

 found much about the fame Error. 



The Reafon of thefe Currents is eafily conceiv'd, whem% Current* 

 a Man is informed, that along the Coaft of Peru the Sc^out at Sea are 

 always fets to the Northward that continual Flux thz^^tL 

 fame Way cannot be fupported but by an Eddy Motion ifoft. 

 the Waters therefore out at Sea muft needs flow to the 

 South, to fucceed thofe that run along the Coaft to the 

 North. Zarate, in his Hiftory of the Conqueft of Peru 9 

 afcribes that Current Northward to the S. W. Winds, 

 which prevail along the Coaft all the Year; and he adds, 



N n 2 that 



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