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 The winds had now begun to Wetern on me, and knowing it, to be an object of the board of Admiralty, that I hould viit the Gallipagoes Iles, it became me to exert my bet endeavours to do o, before I got further to the Northward; when, if the wind hould Wetern more upon us, which it frequently does in this Latitude, I hould not have been able to fetch them.

On the ame day I took my departure from Cape Saint Helena for Gallipagoes Iles, for the reaons already mentioned, the wind weting on us; but, at thirty leagues ditance from the coat, it returned to the South Eat quarter, and continued there, till we made the iles. On the econd day, after we had left the coat, we fell in with a large flinched whale, which could not have been killed more than three days. On the twenty-fourth, at four A. M., we made one of the GallipagoeGallipagoes [sic] Iles, bearing Wet by North, ix or even leagues.

In the coure of our paage, we fell in frequently with treams of current, at leat a mile in breadth, and of which there was no apparent termination. They frequently, changed the hip's coure, againt her helm, half the compas, although running, at the rate of three and a half miles an hour. I