VOYAGE OF THE WAHLBERG. 
T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
The schooner Wahlberg first came into public notice’ when it 
transported a cargo of rifles from San Francisco to the Sandwich 
Islands; later it became a member of the guano poaching fleet 
that had their headquarters in San Diego and collected their car- 
goes from the islands west of the coast of Baja California, and 
during one of its trips was nearly captured by the Mexican goy- 
ernment while lying at anchor in a small bay of the island San 
Martin. Finally, Mr. A. W. Anthony became owner of the 
vessel, intending to use it for collecting specimens of natural his- 
tory from localities inaccessible except by boat. The schooner 
after having changed from its somewhat illegitimate to a scientific 
course of life seemed to be unfortunate, and now lies a wreck on 
the sands of Lagoon Head, drifting ashore one night when sup- 
posed to be safe at anchor. ‘The Wahlberg in 1897, with Mr. 
A. W. Anthony in charge, made one memorable scientific trip, 
starting from San Diego in March, sailing southward, and land- 
ing at nearly all the islands west of the coast of Lower California, 
and continuing to Socorro, Clarion and San Benedicto. 
Mr. A. L. Stockton took charge of the botanical collecting of 
the voyage, and I had the pleasure of accompanying the natur- 
alists as far south as San José del Cabo, where I left the schooner, 
which continued on its journey to Socorro, The first insular 
landing was at the Todos Santos Islands, two small bodies of 
land, with a few outlying rocks, situated west of Ensenada and 
Todos Santos Bay, less than ten miles from the mainland. One 
of these, very much the larger, is three or four miles long, most 
of it elevated above the ocean two or three hundred feet, and in 
