On the 25th, in the latitude of 4 degrees 35 minutes south, and in the longitude of 175 degrees 10 minutes, we found the variation 9 degrees 30 minutes east.

We were then in the height of the islands of Mark, which were discovered by William Schovten and James le Maire.

They are fourteen or fifteen in number, inhabited by savages, with black hair, dressed and trimmed in the same manner as those we saw before at the Bay of Murderers in New Zealand.

On the 29th we passed the Green Islands, and on the 30th that of St.John, which were likewise discovered by Schovten and Le Maire.

This island they found to be of a considerable extent, and judged it to lie at the distance of one thousand eight hundred and forty leagues from the coast of Peru.