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VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS.
CHAPTER X.
The Rattler leaves the Galapagoe Isles and Coast of Peru, for the Isles Saint Felix and Saint Ambrose, on the Coast of Chili: from thence she rounds Cape Horn, on her Passage to Isle Saint Helena, in the Atlantic Ocean.
May 13.On the thirteenth of May, having over-hauled the rigging, caulked, wooded, &c. we ſet ſail with the intention to cruize for ſeven days off Rock Rodondo, and then to proceed to the Iſles Saint Felix and Saint Ambroſe, on the coaſt of Chili. We accordingly hove to for the night, off the North end of Albemarle Iſle, and at break of day, ſaw ſeveral ſpermaceti whales, of which we killed two. The winds had ſet in from the Southward and Eaſtward, with a ſtrong Northerly current; ſo that all our endeavours were in vain to get to the Weſtward and round to the
