70 SPORTING ADVENTURES 



according to taste ; when our gaieties were cut 

 short by an order from Admiral Farquhar to 

 meet him at Arica on the 20th of June. 



Leaving Callao on the 10th we reached our 

 rendezvous on the 19th, and on the 22nd the 

 Admiral arrived in the mail steamer, and shifted 

 his flag to the " Reindeer." 



The next day I accompanied him to Tacna, 

 where we were hospitably entertained, and 

 passed three days very pleasantly, when we 

 returned to the ship, and proceeded in her to 

 Islay. Whilst there a party of us rode over to 

 Mollendo, a miserable place with a very pre- 

 tentious railway station, the terminus of the 

 Arequipa railroad. Several fine clipper ships 

 were at anchor in the roads ; one of them, the 

 " Champion of the Seas," was bound for Callao, 

 and as we were also going there we looked 

 forward to a race with this celebrated ship. 



"We left Islay the next afternoon, and the 

 " Champion " sailed about the same time from 

 Mollendo ; at eight p.m. we were bowling off 

 twelve knots an hour under every stitch of 



