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 peared. I concluded, therefore, that they were placed by fihermen, who are aid to reort here from Lima, as ignals, to engage in ome kind of contraband trade: but I had taken the neceary precautions, at the outfit of my veel, that no commodities hould be put on board which could promote uch a deign, being determined, to adhere trictly to the articles, entered into by the courts of Great-Britain and Spain, repecting veels, voyaging round Cape Horn. I accordingly hewed no colours, and as I kept my coure, the fihermen, I preume, removed their ignals.

On the eleventh day of June, at noon, I had got up the main, as high as the Iles Lobas le Mar. I accordingly tood cloe in, within a mile or two of the hore, and then bore up for the ile, which we oon made, and got well in with it before it was quite dark, and then brought to, with our head to the Southward.

This ile, by my log, is ixteen leagues from the main, which, is a much greater ditance, than is laid down, in mot of the charts. My expectation was enlivened, in common with every one on board, by the opinion, that we hould ee ome of our countrymen in the morning; and when we bore up at