About three o'clock in the afternoon
As soon as the inhabitants caught sight of us , they came down to the beach . I distributed needles and thread among the Indians , and on my saying ` Valdivia , ' a woman instantly pointed towards a tongue of land to the southward , holding up three fingers , and crying ` leaghos ' ! which I conjectured to be three leagues ; the distance we afterwards found it to be . `` About three o'clock in the afternoon , we weathered the point pointed out by the woman , and perceived a flagstaff and a twelve-gun battery under our lee . I now divided among the men the sum of six pounds ten shillings that I had found in Captain Frere 's cabin , and made another and more equal distribution of the clothing . There were also two watches , one of which I gave to Lesly , and kept the other for myself . It was resolved among us to say that we were part crew of the brig Julia , bound for China and wrecked in the South Seas .