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 The different navigators of thee eas have given uch various accounts of the paage from hence to the Galipagoes, that it became a matter of ome perplexity, to determine which route to be preferred. While we were cruizing between the South end of Quibo and Cape Mariatto, the winds were light and motly Southerly. They ometimes blew a trong gale through the night, but generally a tiff breeze from North by Eat, to North by Wet: but in the day we had pleaant weather. As I could depend on the ailing of the Rattler, I determined on my route the firt of March, and teered away to the Southward in a direct line for the iles.

On the fourth day of the ame month, being in Latitude 4° North, the winds varied between the South Eat and South Wet points, and at intervals blew from the Wetward; but when they returned to the Northward, they were very light and of hort duration. At this period an innumerable flight of birds accompanied us, and we had turtles in great plenty, but they oon grew carce; though we continued to take bonnettas, dolphins, porpoies and black-fih in great abundance. The weather then changed to rain with thunder and lightning; and we every day remarked our