An account of several late voyages and discoveries

t •~ Sir John Narbrough;s Vóya~e He turned Chriíliaú, and livcd in úmdon. Tlm Thoma, HiglJWay is u 'Tawny-Moor; he f p~ah tbe S,panijh Tonguc vcry clcar; fo1· he had Jivcd formcrly at Cadi;3 wirh a:1 Engli!h Mtrchant. Al~ thefc four wc1·c vcry healfhy found Mt:n :ind of good ·Prcfcnce and S'pirit 1 ;- which givc; me grcat liopcs that th<~y will livc to givc an Ac. count of that Coumry, and of their Travels. Cape Gallery, ,vhich is thc outern1ofi: Poim on thc Somh-íidc of thc Harbour of Balda·-viri, licrli in thc La.titudc of 3 9 dcgrccs, 5 7 minutes South of the Equinoé'tial; lS alfo in Longitud; to thc W efi:ward of thc Mt.:ridi;.m of thc L izar,! of England, 70 dcgrccs, 20 minutes, accordint to my Account; and in Mer idian difiancc One thoufand onc hundrcd a.nd dght Lcaguc1 W e!\: ; and in Longim.dt:, Eaíl: from thc ,v 1:ft. Mouth of Ma.'!,ellan Strcights and Cttpe,.Pillar, two degrccs and 40 ri1inutcs ; and in Mcridfan <liíb.ncc 42 Lcagucs neareft, according to my rcckonin_s.. Thmfaay., December 22. This Morning ir prov'd vcry fair Wenthcr; at Day-light, the\Vind was at South-wefi, a fi·eíh gale; the Sea indiffcrem fmooth : I plicd to the W indward along the Colfrs and was about threc Lcagucs otf th Shore ' fomewhat to the Southward of Cape-G.1! /ery, o'ut of úght of the People of Balda'Via; foi th c C ape was füut in with the Land to the Nordt w: 1.rd of the Harbour. At twelve of the Cloc I h a.d a good Obfervation of thc Sun with lli} 1 QEadrant; and I found myfelf in the Latirn of 40 dcgrccs.3 minutes South: I was then thr, Lcagu

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