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course to adopt, that, retracing our course to Borja Bay, which 

 we had passed by a few miles, we should there receive the 

 passengers on board from the schooner. The next point to 

 be determined was, whether the shipwrecked company should 

 be conveyed to Valparaiso or Monte Video, as we could not 

 leave them at Sandy Point, there being not an adequate 

 supply of provisions there to support them until the arrival 

 of the next steamer about a month hence. Monte Video was 

 at length fixed on, as agreeing most with the wishes of the 

 generality of the people, many of whom were on their way to 

 Europe. We reached the bay shortly before noon, followed 

 by the schooner, which came alongside about an hour later ; 

 and soon her inmates, many of whom were remarkably attired 

 in blankets, rugs, etc., trooped on board, our decks being 

 crowded with a motley assemblage of about two hundred 

 men, women, and children, of various nations, of which the 

 English bore the smallest proportion. There were Peruvians, 

 Chilians, Monte Videans, Argentines, Brazilians, Germans, 

 French, Italians, and Portuguese ; and their professions were 

 nearly as equally diversified as their nationalities, comprising 

 merchants, captains, opera-singers, hotel-keepers, the head of 

 a large gambling establishment at Lima, and no less than five 

 ecclesiastics of different sorts. Of these last, two were very 

 unpleasant dirty-looking old wretches, with straw hats, horn 

 spectacles, and long gray garments, who might have sat for 

 pictures of Eeinicke Euchs on pilgrimage ; a third was a stout 

 old gentleman in black, of a gouty and gluttonous appear- 

 ance; the fourth was a young Jesuit with a most painful 

 expression of countenance, the skin resembling parchment 

 stretched over the bones ; while the fifth, a fine-looking elderly 

 priest with a splendid beard, clad in a long brown garment, 

 and who had showed an admirable example in the way of exer- 



