peared. I concluded, therefore, that they were placed by fiſhermen, who are ſaid to reſort here from Lima, as ſignals, to engage in ſome kind of contraband trade: but I had taken the neceſſary precautions, at the outfit of my veſſel, that no commodities ſhould be put on board which could promote ſuch a deſign, being determined, to adhere ſtrictly to the articles, entered into by the courts of Great-Britain and Spain, reſpecting veſſels, voyaging round Cape Horn. I accordingly ſhewed no colours, and as I kept my courſe, the fiſhermen, I preſume, removed their ſignals.
June 11.On the eleventh day of June, at noon, I had got up the main, as high as the Iſles Lobas le Mar[1]. I accordingly ſtood cloſe in, within a mile or two of the ſhore, and then bore up for the iſle, which we ſoon made, and got well in with it before it was quite dark, and then brought to, with our head to the Southward.
This iſle, by my log, is ſixteen leagues from the main, which, is a much greater diſtance, than is laid down, in moſt of the charts. My expectation was enlivened, in common with every one on board, by the opinion, that we ſhould ſee ſome of our countrymen in the morning; and when we bore up at
- ↑ This iſle was formerly the reſort of the Buccaneers, but there is no freſh water on it.
