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no means easy shots. A migratory fish, called " corbiaa •" 

 (often compared to the salmon, but in reality more like a 

 bass), comes to the bay in November and yields good trolling, 

 a friend of mine having killed one on the rod which turned 

 the scale at 25 lb. 



In order of latitude, Arica was the next port visited 

 (October 1883). It lies on another sandy bay somewhat 

 similar to that of Coquimbo, but with a heavy rolling swell 

 at most times, whei*eas Coquimbo is comparatively smooth. 

 From the bay there is probably one of the finest panoramic 

 views of the Cordilleras to be seen; and close to the south- 

 ward of the port is the memorable bluff, or " Morro," where 

 during the late war between Chili and Peru, the Peruvians, 

 men and horses, were driven over the cliff, which is several 

 hundred feet high, on to the sea-washed rocks below. A small 

 marsh lies about five miles from the town, the road to it passing 

 the U. S. steamer ' Wateree,^ which was thrown up inland 

 by a great tidal wave in about 1876; and there we shot two 

 kinds of Ducks — FuVigula nationi, the only Pochard found in 

 the country, and Dafila bahamensis of wide distribution — 

 and on the beach Curlew, Golden Plover, Sandpipers, and 

 Skimmers. On the 4th October an immature Arctic Tern, 

 Sterna macrura, was found in an exhausted condition in one 

 of the boats on the davits, the most southern locality on 

 record in America for this northern species. 



A little more than a hundred miles further up the coast 

 is the miserable village of Mollendo, the sea-port of Are- 

 quipa, with which it is connected by rail — being about as 

 ill-suited for the purpose as possible, for the anchorage 

 is bad, and the collected swell of the Pacific seems to hurl 

 itself in upon the ugly black rocks. Landing is difficult 

 and uncertain, being generally effected by a large basket, 

 which is lowered by a crane into the boat. About thirteen 

 miles by rail there is a marsh, probably the largest on the 

 coast, crowded with Coots and Ducks^ amongst the latter 

 Fuligula natloni and Dafila bahamensis , but the last was not 

 in great numbers here. 



The bays of St. Juan and San Nicholas, in about 15° S., 



