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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Island of Eimeo — Jnan Fernandez — Make the coast of Chili — The shore — 

 Town of Valparaiso — suburbs — Indisposition — Kindness of the foreign resi- 

 dents, ^c. — Preparation by the Chilian government for an expedition 

 against Peru — Foreign adventurers — Disaffection of Vidaurre and other 

 officers in the Chilian artny — Murder of Si^nor Portales by the rebels — Pre- 

 paration for invading the town of Valparaisio — consternation of the inhabi- 

 tants — A battle — defeat of the insurgents — Capture and imprisonment of 

 Vidaurre and seven officers — Flovirie, the murderer — Sentence of the court 

 martial — A military execution — Appearance of the bodies after death —Sail 

 for the United States — Cape Horn — Pernambuco — Cape Ilenlopen — A gale — 

 Arnval at Philadelphia. 



May 5th. — This afternoon we got under way, and sailed 

 along the north side of Eimeo, a beautiful island, only twenty 

 miles from Tahiti, and the next morning, (having had a good 

 wind during the night,) the loom only of the land was seen 

 astern. 



June 10th. — When I rose this , morning, the island of Juan 

 Fernandez was in sight, distant about thirty miles. The outline 

 is very uneven and rugged, being composed of alternate rough 

 peaks and vallies. We soon approached so near that I distinctly 

 saw, with the glass, a herd of goats bounding over the rocky 

 heights. I felt anxious to set my foot on the shore, hallowed by 

 the romantic narrative of De Foe, but this was impracticable 

 under the circumstances, and I was compelled to abandon it. 

 This is the Botany Bay of Chili ; the number of convicts at pre- 

 sent is about two hundred. 



