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They anchor at Guam.

rival at Guam, Ah ! Dampier, you would have made them but a poor Meal ; for I was as lean as the Captain was lufty and fleshy. The Wind was at E. N. E. and the Land bore at N. N. E. therefore we stood to the Northward, till we brought the Island to bear East, and then we turned to get in to an anchor.

The account I have given hitherto of our course from Cape Corrientes in the Kingdom of Mexico, (for I have mentioned another Cape of that name in Peru, South of the Bay of Panama) to Guam, one of the Ladrone Islands, hath been in the gross. But for the satisfaction of those who may think it serviceable to the fixing the Longitudes of these parts, or to any other use in Geography or Navi- gation, I have here subjoined a particular Table of every days run, which was as follows.

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