OUB DEPASTURE. 
IS 
France and Germany, cue laid a considerable influence oil liio 
direction of our travels, and on our succeeding operations, 
t' A?- ^ ^ nr ' s w ith the intention of visiting tlie coast 
r u *' 10 es P c ‘ c Ftion for discoveries in tlie Pacific seemed 
to be adjourned for several years. I had agreed with captain 
audio, that if contrary to his expectation, his voyage took 
p ace at an earlier period, and intelligence of it should reach 
me m time, 1 would endeavour to return from Algiers to a 
port m Franco or (Spain, to join the expedition. 1 renewed 
us promise on leaving Europe, and wrote to 31. Baudiu, that 
* le government persisted in sending him hy Cape Horn, I 
Ul ! . oodeavour to meet him either at Monte Video, Chile, 
•r uma, or wherever he should touch in the Spanish colonies. 
^ consequence of this engagement, I changed the plan of 
Hi„V Unc > ou wading in the American papers, in 1801, that 
expedition had , 
'igate the globe from 
lrom Batabano. 
. sailed from Havre, to eireumna- 
oast to west. I hired a small vessel 
fl 111 the island of Cuba, to Portobello, and 
cr ° SS( ? d tlle isthmus to the coast of the Pacific ; this 
oinl.f i° ° . journalist led 31. Bonpland and myself to travel 
V -A 1 leagues thro ugli a country wo lmcl no intention 
lt ; va ? 01ll y at Quito, that a letter from 31. He- 
nfm-m’ P ci l 3e t"al secretary of the first class of the Institute. 
Hono w-H lS ’ Ca 1 P. tal " Faudhi went hy the Cape of Good 
America. th ° Ufc toucllul S on the eastern or western coasts of 
were°eni 1 WVp!l" 0 Gr at Corunna-, after our instruments 
length indicated, the w h ° f 
sidered 1 • h ’ °J l tlie eoa8t of Galicia, is eon- 
pared to sail rm ;r r, i V' C 8uiumer . Fhe Pizarro pro- 
a few hours p ' {G °i ^ ^ 10 I ^S^ 1 wc had intelligence that only 
fromthrvvafK ^^. 3511 ^ 811 st l l| adron had been seed 
the Hu uf £■ d°'' p!' 0 thsarga, appearing to stand towards 
aneW nif Ta S us ‘ T hose vvho saw our ship weigh 
f 6C that wo should he captured in three days, 
^ cSd to Hi L f ° U0 ^, ihc fate of " o simuld 
*1 °n J 1,3 prognostic gave us the more 
r or w' i la f HfJ 0 " 11 somc Mexicans at Madrid, who, 
01<l0 ' to retunl to \ era Cruz, had embarked three times 
