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 April lat. This veel brought news to the court of the dicovery, and the taking poeion, in the name of the King, of everal mall ilands in the South eas, to 27° of Latitude South of Lima. There is one iland rather large, and has an excellent harbour. This iland they have called Saint Charles; and the dicovery was made by the King's frigate the Eagle, which the Viceroy of Peru ent upon that expedition. They ay that thee ilands are inhabited by avage Indians, but that they were very well dipoed; and that the country abounded with wood, fowls, hogs, and certain roots of which they made bread, perhaps caada."

"It would appear that the court means to make ue of this dicovery; and that they mean to build forts thereon, and to etablih a communication between thee ilands, and the continent of South America. It is probable that the famous Mr. Hudon had dicovered thee iles in his voyage round the world, and that the larget of them are called Davis's land. What renders this conjecture more probable is, that they found the interior inhabitants poeed of hatchets, pades and hoes."