'^SG FROM THE ST. LAWRENCE ISLANDS 



St. Cruz, which lies on a small island in the har- 

 bour, and went on shore, accompanied by our 

 scientific gentlemen, and Mr. Wilson. We had to 

 row one mile and three quarters to the village of 

 Piti, as we w^ere obHged to make many turnings 

 on account of the shoals ; saw a small two-masted 

 vessel, belonging to the Governor, lying at anchor ; 

 and, besides this, no other ship in the harbour. 

 Wilson, the mate of the two-masted vessel, assured 

 me, that years sometimes elapsed, in which no ship 

 came here. The sun was near setting when we 

 landed at Piti, from whence we went to the ad- 

 joining village of Massu, where the mules were in 

 waitina: for us : the Governor had sent his horse, 

 the only one in the island, for me. As we were 

 still three miles and a half from Agana there was 

 no time to be lost ; I mounted my horse, the 

 other gentlemen got on their mules, and we rode 

 off in the highest spirits. The scenery was very 

 romantic, and seemed a paradise to us, after so 

 long a voyage ; and at the same time, the air, with 

 its odoriferous perfumes, hud such a beneficial influ- 

 ence on us, that we all felt ourselves strengthened.* 

 Anson represents the island of Tinian, which he 

 reached in a sickly state, after a long and fa- 

 tiguing voyage, as one of the most romantic in the 

 world. Had he landed here, nobody could have 



* The Spaniards resident here universally affirm, that the 

 air of Guahon is very healthy ; and that people attain an ex- 

 traordinary old age. 



