APPENDIX. 237 



level point. No danger need be feared in entering- ; as although the 

 land is low, it may be approached within half a mile, in from six to 

 ten fathoms. The anchorage inside the long kelp-covered reef mio-ht 

 perhaps, be preferred ; but the landing is not so good. 



N. 27° W. of this bay, at the distance of eighteen miles, is Point 

 LoBo, or Blanca, high and bold, on its extreme are several hillocks. 

 Between these two is a small fishing village, called Chomache, under 

 a point, which has a long reef off it, on the outer part of which 

 a cluster of rocks shew themselves a few feet above water. The 

 people of this village get their water from the Loa — a passage 

 requiring, on a balsa, four days or more. 



N. 21° W., fourteen miles off Point Lobo, is Point Pacache, a low 

 rugged projecting point, with an islet a quarter of a mile off it, but 

 quite clear outside this islet : half way between these two points is 

 the Cone (PabeUon) of Pica, a remarkable hillock of guano ap- 

 pearing as if it had been covered with snow which had thawed at 

 the top, leaving the lower half frozen, contrasting strongly vnth the 

 surrounding hills, which are of a barren sun-burnt brown. This is 

 also a place of resort for the guano vessels ; they find pretty good an- 

 chorage close to the northward of the Pabellon. 



East, a little southerly, a few mOes in-shore of this, is a beU- 

 shaped mountain, named Carrasco, 5,500 feet high : in clear wea- 

 ther it is a good mark for the neighbourhood of Iquique. 



From Point Pacache to Point Grande, N. 8°W. twenty-eight miles, 

 the coast is low and rocky, the termination of a long range of table 

 land, CEdled the heights of Oyarvide, or Barrancas, from its cliffy 

 appearance : it has innumerable rocks and shoals off it, and should • 

 not be approached on any account nearer than a league, for the fre- 

 quent calms and heavy swell pecuHar to this coast render it unsafe 

 for nearer approach. 



Point Grande at the north end of the Barrancas, is a low cliffy 

 point, with three white patches on its northern side ; round this 

 point is the Bay of Cheuranatta. 



N. 3°W., eleven miles from Point Grande is the anchorage and 

 town of Iquique ; a miserable place that affords scarcely sufficient 

 provisions for the consumption of its inhabitants, about five hundred 

 souls ; and no water nearer than Pisagua (a distance of nearly forty 

 miles), from which place it is brought by boats built for the purpose, 

 and is very dear. Yet, with these disadvantages, it is a place of con- 



