We Learnt Also, That The Spaniards Had Fitted Out Two
Men Of War Against Us, One Of Thirty-Two, And
The other thirty-six brass
guns, all twenty-four pounders, each having 350 sailors and 150
soldiers, all picked men,
And had been cruizing for us in the Bay of
Guayaquil, between point St Helena and Cape Blanco, from the 7th to the
12th.
We were forced to go under an easy sail, as our prize sailed very
heavily, wherefore we went into Sardinas Bay, in lat. 1 deg. 20' N. where
we anchored with our prize in ten fathoms, about four miles from the
shore, for the purpose of rummaging her. We durst not go farther in,
because of many shoals and sand-banks, which were very imperfectly laid
down in all our charts. The sea-coast is inhabited by Indians, but not
in any great numbers, and has several small fresh-water rivers. From
hence, all the way south, till we came to the Bay of Atacarnes, in
lat. 0 deg. 54' N. the sea-side is composed of white cliffs; and there are
many shoals as far as Punta de la Galera, in lat. 0 deg. 48' N. Six
leagues S.W. of Sardinas Bay is the great river of St Jago, the mouth of
which is about three quarters of a mile wide, but has no good anchorage
till well within. This river is seldom used by ships, being out of the
way, yet the country here produces abundant provisions of all sorts.
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