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CHAPTER VII.

Passage from the Galapagoe Ises, to Isle Cocas.

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1793.From the Southernmoſt Galapagoe Iſle, we ſtood over again for the main, keeping between the Latitude of 2° South, and the Equator, and had a ſtrong Eaſterly current conſtantly againſt us: but it was not ſo perceptible, as on our paſſage from the main, although we fell in with ſeveral beds of cream-coloured blubber: we did not, however, ſee ſo many ſmall fiſh, birds, or ſeals; of the latter, we only ſaw two, and they were not at any conſiderable diſtance from either iſle or main. Porpoiſes and black fiſh were continually around us, with a few albacores and bonettas.

The winds were much the ſame, as on my paſſage to the Galapagoes, blowing ſteadily from between the South and Eaſtward, after twenty-four hours ſail from the iſles;