night the weather was ſhowery, with occaſional lightning. The winds were well to the Eaſtward, and next day ſo much ſo, that I was obliged to carry a preſs of ſail, to weather the North Eaſt points of the iſland, and could not therefore take the people from off the ſhore.
Dec. 4.On the fourth, at day-break, the winds inclining to the Northward, we run down off the cove, and got our tent and all hands on board by noon, anchors ſtowed, cables unbent, and made ſail to the North Eaſt, for the Coaſt of Mexico, with the crew in perfect health, except the ſecond mate; who, though he was much recovered, was ſtill in a weakly and ſickly condition. It may not be unneceſſary for me to remark, that thoſe of the crew who had any eruption on them of a ſcorbutic kind, I recommended them to bruiſe the prickly pear, and to apply the ſame in manner of a poultice, from which they not only found great relief, but it ſpeedily recovered them, and much ſooner than would have generally been credited.
Socoro, in the Spaniſh language, means ſupply; but during our ſtay at that iſland, we were not ſo fortunate as to diſcover any great affinity between the name, and character of the place. To this and the adjacent iſles, I have given the name of Rivella Gigeda, after the viceroy of Mexico, as