and the information I received from the Spaniards, while I I reſided among them, I was determined to make a trial of fiſhing there, till the fair weather came on to the Southward; which might reaſonably be expected to begin at Cape Corientes, the latter end of October, or beginning of November. In my route to the coaſt, I endeavored to make Clipperton's Iſle from the beſt accounts I poſſeſſed; but they differed ſo widely in Latitude, that I was at a loſs where to look for it; and, as it was not in my deſign to come this way when I ſailed from England, I had left behind me my manuſcript chart of the ſeas, &c. laying North of Iſle Socoro, with all the information I had received from the Spaniards concerning them.
Sep. 29-30.From the twenty-ninth to the thirtieth, we beat to the Northward, in ſhort tacks, with the hope of deſcrying Clipperton's Iſle; we ſaw frequently man-of-war hawks, and at times a few ſolitary ſeals. As we had ſome expectation of ſeeing land, every cloud that roſe in the horizon was declared, by the ſeamen, to be the object in ſearch: but as I could not be perſuaded it was, I did not think proper to purſue the various momentary opinions which frequently were ſtarted,
October 4.On the fourth of October, in Latitude 23° 15′, we made the coaſt of California. The winds from the time of our leaving Socoro, blew from North North Eaſt, to North North Weſt, weſting as we made the land of California, with very pleaſant weather, but ſometimes cloudy. On our paſſage we ſaw a few turtles, with killers, por-