VOYAGE 



TO THE 



PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT. 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure from England — Teneriffe — Sun eclipsed— Fernanda 

 Norhona — Make the Coast of Brazil — Rio Janeiro — Passage 

 round Cape Horn — Conception — Valparaiso. 



On the 19th of May we weighed from Spithead, 

 and the following afternoon took our parting view 

 of the Devonshire coast, and steered out of the May, 

 Channel with a fair wind. For several days after- 

 wards our progress was impeded by boisterous wea- 

 ther, for which the approach to the Bay of Biscay 

 has long been proverbial. We however escaped to- 

 lerably well, and favourable breezes soon succeeding, 

 we advanced to the southward. 



On the 30th we ascertained, by running over the June 

 spot in a fine clear day, that a reef of rocks, named 

 the Eight Stones, did not exist in the situation 

 which it has for a number of years occupied in our 

 charts : the next morning we passed the Desertas, 

 and on the 1st of June were off Teneriffe. 



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