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 took care that o powerful an antieptic, as our crout, hould not be forgotten.

For the reaons already mentioned, I determined to tretch off to the Wetward, to earch for Ile Socoro, Santo Berto, and Rocka Partida, but, although I thought it right to leave the coat for the preent, I did not give up my opinion, that a whaling voyage might be made in the dry eaon, which would probably commence within les than two months; at the expiration of which time, I was determined to return. Nothing, indeed, would have deterred me from it, at preent, if we had poeed ufficient wind to hift our ituation, and keep the run of the fih, or clear weather, to acertain the true Latitude and ditance, from the land, at which we fell in with them.

There were many ports near this, into which I wihed to have entered, particularly the famous one of Guatalco, where Sir Francis Drake got a buhel of money, out of one houe, in 1579; and, in 1587, Sir Thomas Cavendih, poeed himelf of great riches: but being naturally led to believe, that the above circumtances would not be forgot by the natives, and my ill treatment at Nootka, and St. Blas, being alo freh in my memory, I thought it mot prudent to give up, for the preent, all ideas of going into any harbor on the Spanih coat.