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 We aw Ile Santo Berto from the Wet end of this ile, bearing North 20° Eat. Having made Socoro and Santo Berto, by the Spanih manucript chart, which I procured, while a prioner at St. Blas, and got a ufficient tore of beans and prickly pears; I tretched away to earch for Rocka Partida and St. Thomas's, by the ame chart. Two of the crew were affected with a violent purging and vomiting, from eating too much of the fruits jut mentioned. It lated twenty-four hours, and, in the end, proved beneficial to them. Indeed, we were all in perfect health, except the econd mate, who had a lamenes and contraction in one of his knees, and had been in an ailing tate, ever ince we left Rio Janeiro.

On the twenty-fourth, at nine, A. M. we aw Rocka Partida, on our weather bow, which had the appearance of a ail. By four o'clock, we worked up with it, and found it a dangerous barren rock, laying North, North Wet, and South, South Eat, by compas. Its greatet length, is fifty or ixty fathoms: and its breadth, about twenty-five or thirty: both ends are fifteen or twenty fathoms in height. The North Wet end is forked; the South and Eat end, is like a ragged hay-cock. The two heights are eparated by a ragged addle, that ries about three or