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 The Ile Lobas le Terra, appears, towards the Eatern point, to be much broken into mall hillocks, while the land, or main near it, is low and viible, only on a near approach.

During the hort time I remained off thee iles, the weather was o hazy, as to prevent my making any accurate obervations concerning them.

On the ixteenth of June, I reached Cape Blanco, the South Cape of the Gulf of Guaiaquil, which is level land, of a moderate height, and, by everal obervations taken off it, I make it in Latitude 4° 8′ South, and Longitude 82° 20′ Wet. Off this cape, there is a trong, weterly current, making out of the Gulf of Guaiaquil; and afterwards, in croing the gulf, I was in twenty-four hours, et forty miles to the Wetward.

On the nineteenth, I aw Point Saint Helena and Ile Plata, where Admiral Sir Francis Drake divided his plunder. By everal obervations taken off the ile, I place it in Latitude 1° 16′ South, and Longitude 82° 42′ Wet; and Point Saint Helena in Latitude 2° 0′ South, and Longitude 82° 20′ Wet.