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of her cargo, Captain Swan sold most of his goods on - Page 377
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As The Cygnet Was Unfit For Service, By Reason Of Her Cargo, Captain Swan Sold Most Of His Goods On Credit, And Threw The Rest Overboard, Reserving Only The Fine Commodities, And Some Iron For Ballast.

Captains Davis and Swan now joined company; and Harris was placed in command of a small bark.

Our bark, which had been sent to cruise three days before the arrival of the Cygnet, now returned with a prize laden with timber, which they had taken in the Gulf of Guayaquil. The commander of this prize informed us, that it was reported at Guayaquil, that the viceroy was fitting out ten frigates to chase us from these seas. This intelligence made us wish for Captain Eaton, and we resolved to send out a small bark towards Lima, to invite him to rejoin us. We also fitted up another small bark for a fire-ship, and set sail for the island of Lobos on the 20th October.

Being about six leagues off Payta on the 2d of November, we sent 110 men in several canoes to attack that place. Payta is a small sea-port town belonging to the Spaniards, in lat. 5 deg. 15' S. built on a sandy rock near the sea-side, under a high hill. Although not containing more than seventy-five or eighty low mean houses, like most of the other buildings along the coast of Peru, it has two churches. The walls of these houses are chiefly built of a kind of bricks, made of earth and straw, only dried in the sun.

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