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 whaling mater and mates were in favour of a Northern Latitude, it was oon reolved to take our departure from Cape Paado; which, from everal obervations, I place in Latitude ten miles South, and Longitude 82° Wet.

I now tood acros the gulf, and, on the twentieth of July, fell in with the Ile Malpelo; I had no decription of this place, and I was not induced from its name, which ignifies bald head, to expect any advantage from it. I calculated its Latitude to be 4° 20′ North, and its Longitude 80° 45′ Wet, ditant from Cape Paado eighty-ix leagues. It is a barren, and high, perpendicular rock, which may be een, in clear weather, at the ditance of twenty leagues. A mall quantity of green mos, and a few dwarf buhes, which grow in its cracks or gullies, afford the only verdure that it poees: It is urrounded with ilets, and the whole may extend about nine or ten miles from North to South. The centre, of this iland, bears a reemblance, in everal points of view, to the crown of an head; and its being barren, accounts naturally enough for the name, which the Spaniards, have betowed upon it. Had I een any eals off this place, I hould have conidered it as a good ituation for them.