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 hovering about the iland and urveying it, ent the commander a meage, by which he required him to depart. The Spaniard made an appearance of obeying, but in two days came back with letters written by the governor of Port Solidad, and brought by the chief officer of a ettlement on the eat part of Falkland’s Iland.

this letter, dated Malouina, November 30, the governor complains, that Captain Hunt, when he ordered the chooner to depart, aumed a power to which he could have no pretenions, by ending an imperious meage to the Spaniards in the King of Spain’s own dominions.

another letter ent at the ame time, he uppoes the Englih to be in that part only by accident, and to be ready to depart at the firt warning. This letter was accompanied by a preent, of which, ays he, if it be neither equal to my deire nor to