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journey, and safely arrived at our fortress in the 

 evening. 



The ^8th. Immediately after my arrival I took 

 care to have my six Aleutians vaccinated ; the 

 district-physician received orders to come on board 

 with two children who had the cow-pox, and Dr. 

 Eschscholtz inoculated the Aleutians. On the 

 island of Luconia, the surgeons have the strictest 

 order to inoculate the little children in the villages 

 every week. 



To-day Mr. Tobias sent out from the arsenal a 

 small galley-fleet against the Moors, which is done 

 twice a-year. The fleet consisted of nine gun- 

 boats ;.fiv^e of them carried each a four-and-twenty- 

 pounder, and the four smaller ones had ten-pound- 

 ers : tliey were all well manned, and amply pro- 

 vided with small arms. The fleet sails to the 

 Straits of St. Bernardino, where it separates ; the 

 one-half takes its station in the strait, and the 

 other goes to the northern part of the island of 

 Magindanao. Since the Spaniards have adopted 

 the course of chastising the Moors in their own 

 country, they do not venture so often to penetrate 

 to Manilla. 



We had here, with the north-east monsoon, dur- 

 ing the day, ^3°, and in the night 18° of heat; and 

 while we could scarcely endure this heat, the inha- 

 bitants wrapped themselves up in the night in 

 their warm bed-clothes, and called this the winter 

 jnonth. To judge from this, the heat during the 



