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w.itli.a létter oficredit ïo Rio Janeiro, to purchafe what: was wanting:
from the Portugnefe,. He, at the fame time, feat an exp refs
acrofs the continent to St. ja g o in Chili, to he thence forwarded to
the Viceroy of Peru, informing him o f the difalters that had befallen
his fquadron, and defiring a remittance of two hundred thou-
fand dollars from the royal chefts at Lima, to enable him to victual
and rent his remaining Ihips, that-he might.be again in a condition to
attempt the pallage to the.Sbuth-Seas,ns foon as the feafon of the year
fhould be more favourable. It is mentioned by the Spaniards as a molt
extraordinary circumftance, that the Indian charged with this exprefs.
(though it was then the depth o f winter, when tiie-Gardil/eras are
efteemed impallable on account o f the fnow), was only thirteen days
in his journey from Buenos Ayres to St. Jago in C h i l i though thele-.
places are diftant three, hundred Spanijh leagues, near forty of
which are amongft the fnows and precipices o f the Cordilleras.
The return to this difpatch o f Pizarro’s from the Viceroy of
Per« was no ways favourable: inftead o f two hundred thoufand
dollars, the. fum demanded,., the Viceroy remitted him only-
one hundred thoufand, telling h im ;. that it was with- great difficulty
he was able to procure him.even that; .though the inhabitants
at Lima, who confidered the prefence o f . Pizarro as ab—
folutely neceflary to their fecurity,. wère much difcontented ajt this -
procedure, and did not fail tö aflèrt, that it was not the want o f money,.
but the interefted views of fome o f\ the Viceroy’s confidents,, th at,
prevented Pizarro from having the whol^fum he had afked for.
The advice-boat fentto Rio Janeiro alfo executed her commiffion
but imperfectly; for though Ihe brought back a confiderablé quantity
of pitch, tar, and cordage,, yet lhe could not procure either
malls or yards : and as an additional misfortune, Pizarro was dif-
appointed of lome malls he expefted from Paraguay ; for a carpenter
whom he entrufted with a large film, of money, and had
fent there to cut malls,, inftead of prolbcuting the.bufinefs he was •
employed in, had married in the country, and refufed to return.:
However, by removing the malls o f 'the Efperanza into the A fa^?
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and making ufe of what Ipare malls and yards they had on board,
they made a Ihift to refit the AJia and the St. EJlevan. And in the
Oblober following, Pizarro was preparing to put to fea with thefe
two Ihips, in order to attempt the palfage round Cape Horn a fe-
cond time; but the St. EJlevan, in coming down the river Plate,
ran on a Ihoal, and beat off her rudder; on which, and other damages
lhe received, lhe was condemned and broke up, and P izarro
in the AJia proceeded to fea without her. Having now the
fummer before him, and the winds, favourable, no doubt was
made o f his having a fortunate and lpeedy pallage; but being off
Cape Horn, and going right before the wind in very moderate
weather, though in a fwelling Tea, by fome mifconduQ: of the officer
o f the watch the Ihip rolled away her malls, and was a fecond
time obliged to put back to the river Plate in greqt diftrels.
The AJia having confiderably fuffered in this fecond unfortunate
expedition, the Efperanza, which had been left behind at Monte
Vedio, was ordered to be refitted, the commahd o f her being given
to Mindinuetta, who was Captain of the Guipufcoa when lhe was
loll. He, in the November of the fucceeding year, that is, in November
1742, failed from the river of Plate for the South-Seas, and
arrived lafe on the coall o f C h ili; where his Commodore Pizarro
paffing over land from Buenos Ayres met him. There were great
animofities and contells between thefe two Gentlemen at their
meeting, occafioned principally by the claim of Pizarro to command
the Efperanza, which Mindinuetta had brought round: for
Mindinuetta refilled to deliver her up to him ; infilling, that as he
came into the South-Seas alone, and under no fuperior, it was not
now in the power of Pizarro to relume that authority, which he
had once parted with. However, the Prelident o f Chili interpofing,
and declaring for Pizarro, Mindinuetta, after a long and obftiuate
llruggle, was obliged to fubmit.
But Pizarro had not yet completed theferies of his adventures ;
for when he and Mindinuetta came 'back by land Trom Chili to
Buenos Ayres, in the year 1745, they foqnd at Monte Vedio the
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