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DEPARTURE FROM CUBA. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Deparhire 

 trom Trini 

 dad, 



Voyage from Cuba to Carthagena. 



Passage from Trinidad of Cuba to Carthagena— Description of the 

 latter — Village of Turbaco — Air-volcanoes— Preparations for 

 ascending the Rio Magdalena. 



CHAP.xxii. Leaving the island of Cuba the travellers proceeded in 

 a S.S.E. direction, and on the morning of the 17th 

 approached the group of the Little Caymans, in the 

 neighbourhood of which they saw numerous turtles of 

 extraordinary size, accompanied by multitudes of sharks. 

 Passing a second time over the great bank of Vibora, 

 they remarked that the colour of the troubled waters 

 upon it was of a dirty gray, and made observations on 

 the changes of temperature at the surface, produced by 

 the varying depth of the sea. On quitting this shoal 

 they sailed between the Baxo Nueva and the lighthouse 

 of Camboy. The weather was n markably fine, and the 

 surface of the bay was of an indigo-blue or violet tint, 

 on account of the medusa; which covered it. Haloes of 

 small dimensions appeared round the moon. The dis- 

 appearance of one of them was followed by the forma- 

 tion of a great black cloud, which emitted some drops of 

 rain ; but the sky soon resumed its serenity, and a long 

 series of falling-stars and fire-balls were seen moving in 

 a direction contrary to the wind in the lower regions of 

 the atmosphere, which blew from the north. During 

 tlie whole of the 23d March not a single cloud was seen 

 In the firmament, although the air and the horizon were 



Lunar 

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