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 Every one was charmed with the place; but, as all apprehenions of the curvy or any other dieae was at an end, and we had got a large proviion of turtle on board, the anxiety of my people, to commence the fihery, in which, they all had a proportionate interet, began to hew itelf; nor was I dipoed to check their pirits, or delay their wihes; being well aured, that they would be overjoyed to return hither, at no very ditant period, when I hould have an opportunity to viit the ret of thee ilands.

On the twenty-eighth of June we weighed anchor, and ailed round the Eat point, with a view of beating a mall ditance to the Southward, in order to determine the particular ile, we had viited, according to the decription of the Buccaneers and the Spanih map, but my endeavours were not ucceful. While we were at anchor, it was uppoed, that we aw land in the North Wet, at the ditance of fourteen or fifteen leagues; but this was by no means acertained; though, according to Dampier, mot of the iles ought to have been in ight of us, by allowing the difference of a few miles of Latitude between us and him.

On the firt of July, we aw a mall ile which I beat up to; and, taking obervations within a few miles of it, place