72 SPOET1NG ADVENTURES 



Steam Navigation Company, and the next few 

 days were devoted to festivities, all Callao being 

 desirous of doing honour to our popular Com- 

 mander-in- Chief. 



On the 18th of July the admiral and his 

 secretary embarked on board the mail steamer 

 " Araucania," one of the magnificent fleet 

 belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation 

 Company, to rejoin his flag-ship at Coquimbo. 

 The estimation in which he was held by the 

 residents in Callao may be gathered from the 

 following extract from the South Pacific Times : 



"From our harbour, in the P.S.N. Co. ship 

 Araucania/ on the 18th inst., departed one, 

 who has during a short official visit contrived 

 by means innate to himself to leave an impression 

 not easily eradicated from the minds of all who 

 have had the good fortune to call upon or be 

 presented to the British Commander-in- Chief. 

 If kindness of heart, amiability, intellect, and 

 the social requirements of a gentleman, coupling 

 the suaviter in modo with the fortiter in re, as 

 especial qualifications for an officer of responsi- 



