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 and the information I received from the Spaniards, while I II [sic] reided among them, I was determined to make a trial of fihing there, till the fair weather came on to the Southward; which might reaonably be expected to begin at Cape Corientes, the latter end of October, or beginning of November. In my route to the coat, I endeavored to make Clipperton's Ile from the bet accounts I poeed; but they differed o widely in Latitude, that I was at a los where to look for it; and, as it was not in my deign to come this way when I ailed from England, I had left behind me my manucript chart of the eas, &c. laying North of Ile Socoro, with all the information I had received from the Spaniards concerning them.

From the twenty-ninth to the thirtieth, we beat to the Northward, in hort tacks, with the hope of decrying Clipperton's Ile; we aw frequently man-of-war hawks, and at times a few olitary eals. As we had ome expectation of eeing land, every cloud that roe in the horizon was declared, by the eamen, to be the object in earch: but as I could not be peruaded it was, I did not think proper to purue the various momentary opinions which frequently were tarted,. [sic]

On the fourth of October, in Latitude 23° 15′, we made the coat of California. The winds from the time of our leaving Socoro, blew from North North Eat, to North North Wet, weting as we made the land of California, with very pleaant weather, but ometimes cloudy. On our paage we aw a few turtles, with killers, por-