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An. 1687
They arrive at Pulo Condore.
The time of the year being now too far fpent to do any thing here, it was concluded to fail from hence to Pulo Condore, a little parcel of Iflands on the Coaft of Cambodia, and carry this prize with us, and there careen if we could find any conve- nient place for it, defigning to return hither again by the latter end of May, and wait for the Aca- pulco Ship that comes about that time. By our Drafts (which we were guided by, being ftran- gers to thefe parts) this feemed to us then to be a place out of the way, where we might lye fnug for a while, and wait the time of returning for our prey. For we avoided as much as we could the going to lye by at any great place of Com- merce, left we fhould become too much expofed, and perhaps be affulted by a force greater than our own.
So having fet our Prifoners afhore, we failed from Luconia the 26th day of Feb. with the Wind E. N. E. and fair weather, and a brisk gale. We were in lat. 14d. N. when we began to fteer away for Pulo Condore, and we fteered S. by W. In our way thither we went pretty near the Shoals of Pracel, and other Shoals which are very dange- rous. We were very much afraid of them, but efcaped them without fo much as feeing them, on- ly at the very South end of the Pracel Shoals we faw 3 little fandy Iflands or Spots of Sand, ftand- ing juft above water within a mile of us.
It was the 13th day of March before we came in fight of Pulo Condore, or the Ifland Condore, as Pulo fignifies. The 14th day about noon we anchored on the North fide of the Ifland, againft a fandy Bay 2 mile from the fhore, in 10 fathom clean hard Sand, with both Ship and Prize. Pulo Condore is the principal of a heap of Iflands, and the only inhabited one of them. They lye in lat. 8 d. 40 m. North, and about 20 leagues South and by