CHAPTER X. 



THERE is much to be seen at San Francisco, but 

 our very limited stay prevented our visiting 

 everything; and as soon as the coaling was 

 finished we sailed for Mazatlan, where we 

 arrived on the 16th of November, after a pas- 

 sage of eleven days. Whilst shipping a small 

 freight which awaited us, I took the opportunity 

 of paying another visit to the lagoons, accom- 

 panied by two of the officers ; our united bag 

 amounted to twenty brace of ducks. We were 

 unable to get any coal here, so we touched at 

 San Bias, and laid in a quantity of wood instead. 

 I took advantage of this delay to run up to 



Tepic with Lieutenant B to see our friends 



again. The last time we were at Tepic was 



