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 night the weather was howery, with occaional lightning. The winds were well to the Eatward, and next day o much o, that I was obliged to carry a pres of ail, to weather the North Eat points of the iland, and could not therefore take the people from off the hore.

On the fourth, at day-break, the winds inclining to the Northward, we run down off the cove, and got our tent and all hands on board by noon, anchors towed, cables unbent, and made ail to the North Eat, for the Coat of Mexico, with the crew in perfect health, except the econd mate; who, though he was much recovered, was till in a weakly and ickly condition. It may not be unneceary for me to remark, that thoe of the crew who had any eruption on them of a corbutic kind, I recommended them to bruie the prickly pear, and to apply the ame in manner of a poultice, from which they not only found great relief, but it peedily recovered them, and much ooner than would have generally been credited.

Socoro, in the Spanih language, means upply; but during our tay at that iland, we were not o fortunate as to dicover any great affinity between the name, and character of the place. To this and the adjacent iles, I have given the name of Rivella Gigeda, after the viceroy of Mexico, as