time of war, for veſſels of ſmall force, to lay at, in order to watch an enemy; the land, being of ſufficient height, to afford ſecurity and concealment.
I continued my route along the coaſt to the Northward, running under an eaſy ſail, or ſtanding off and on in the day, and laying to at night. I never diſtanced the land, more than fourteen or fifteen leagues, and was ſometimes as near it, as two or three leagues. I cruized ſeveral days off Lima, at a ſmall diſtance from the Iſle Saint Lawrence, which forms the road of Callo[1]. I kept near this ſituation, in hopes of meeting ſome veſſel, which might afford me information, whether any Engliſh fiſhermen were in the road, and without any apprehenſion, of being known by the Spaniards, as the ſuperior ſailing of my ſhip, always left it to my own option, to ſpeak with whom I pleaſed.
June 6.On the ſixth of June, at ſun-ſet, I ſaw the dangerous rocks and ſhoals of Ormigas, appearing like a ſail, and laying nearly Eaſt and Weſt of Iſle Saint Lawrence. At noon our Latitude obſerved was 11° 48′, the Iſle Saint Lawrence Eaſt, 80° North, and the rocks of Ormigas, North 28° Weſt, at the diſtance of ſeven or eight miles. Theſe rocks are very dangerous; the loftieſt part being little higher than the hull of a ſmall ſhip; and the ſea breaks, for ſeveral leagues, around, and off, them. They are quite barren, and I obſerved with my glaſs, two croſſes erected on them, which in a ſhort time diſap-
- ↑ In 1614, the Dutch fortified themſelves at this iſle, when they were making preparations to attack Lima.
