The Iſle Lobas le Terra, appears, towards the Eaſtern point, to be much broken into ſmall hillocks, while the land, or main near it, is low and viſible, only on a near approach.
During the ſhort time I remained off theſe iſles, the weather was ſo hazy, as to prevent my making any accurate obſervations concerning them.
June 16.On the ſixteenth of June, I reached Cape Blanco, the South Cape of the Gulf of Guaiaquil, which is level land, of a moderate height, and, by ſeveral obſervations taken off it, I make it in Latitude 4° 8′ South, and Longitude 82° 20′ Weſt. Off this cape, there is a ſtrong, weſterly current, making out of the Gulf of Guaiaquil; and afterwards, in croſſing the gulf, I was in twenty-four hours, ſet forty miles to the Weſtward.
19.On the nineteenth, I ſaw Point Saint Helena and Iſle Plata, where Admiral Sir Francis Drake divided his plunder. By ſeveral obſervations taken off the iſle, I place it in Latitude 1° 16′ South, and Longitude 82° 42′ Weſt; and Point Saint Helena in Latitude 2° 0′ South, and Longitude 82° 20′ Weſt.
