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APPENDIX, No. I. 



NO. 

 III. 



IV. 

 V. 



VI. 



VII. 

 VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 

 XII. 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV. 



XVI. 



Passage from Valparaiso to Lima 

 — from Lima to Valparaiso 

 from Valparaiso to Lima 



by 



the Entremedios 



from Chorillos (near Lima) to 



Valparaiso . . . . . . 



from Valparaiso to Conception, 



Bay of Arauco, and Island of Mocha . 

 from Valparaiso to Lima, call- 

 ing at Coquimbo, Guasco, Copiapd, 

 Arica, and Mollendo .... 



from Lima to Pacasmayas, 



Payta, and Guayaquil . . . . 



from Guayaquil to the Gala- 

 pagos Islands 



from the Galapagos to Panama 



General Remarks on the winds, wea- 

 ther, and navigation, on the south and 

 south-west coast of Mexico . . . 



Passage from Panama to Acapulco . 



from Acapulco to San Bias . 



from San Bias (round Cape 



Horn) to Rio de Janeiro . 

 from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia 



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NO. I. 

 FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO BUENOS AYRES. 



P. M. Uth of October to A.M. 23d, 1820. 

 (8i Bays.) 



This passage was made in less time than it 

 usually occupies. We passed the Sugar Loaf at 

 the entrance of Rio about four o'clock in the after- 

 noon of Saturday the 14th of October, 1820, and 

 were off Maldonado, at the entrance of the river 

 Plate, at the same hour on that day week, viz. the 

 2 1 st, and anchored off Buenos Ayres at four in 

 the morning of Monday the 23d ; thus completing 

 seven days from Rio to the River Plate, and 

 eight and a half from Rio to Buenos Ayres. 



The wind was moderate, from E.S.E. as far as 

 latitude 26° 46' South, when it drew to N.E., and 

 blew fresh ; it then hauled gradually to the north- 

 ward. In 33° it fell light, and drew to the west- 

 ward, south, and so round to the eastward. On 

 approaching the river it came to the southward 

 again ; after entering which, the wind came from 

 the S.E., and afterwards N.E. and East, moderate, 

 and fine weather. 



An American frigate, which sailed from Rio a 

 fortnight before us, met with hard S.W. breezes, 

 and arrived only two days before us. 



Two years afterwards we were off the river 

 Plate, between the latitudes of 40° and 30° for 

 thirteen days, contending against Northerly, and 

 N.N. Westerly winds, between longitudes 40° and 

 60°. This was in the latter end of August and 

 beginning of September 1822 ; and it may be 

 useful to remark, that, on this occasion, the winds 

 invariably followed the course of the sun, that is, 

 from right to left, or what is technically called, in 

 the northern hemisphere, against the sun. This 

 change occurred three different times ; the wind 

 drawing from N.E. to North, then to N.W. and 

 West, and so to S.W., and again by S.E. to N.E. 

 and North. Upon two occasions it shifted to S.W. 

 from the northward, without any warning, and 



blew fresh. 



NO. II. 



FROM MONTE VIDEO TO VALPARAISO, 



Uth of November to the 19th of December 1820. 



(38 Daps.) 



This passage was favourable both as to the 

 weather we met with, and as to the time it occu- 

 pied. With the exception of a gale from South, 

 on the 18th of November, in latitude 46±° South, 

 longitude 57° West, and another short one from 

 West on the 12th of December, after rounding 

 the Cape, in latitude 51° South, longitude 82° 

 West, the weather was uniformly moderate. At 

 starting, we had the winds from the W.S.W., 

 S.W., and West, with one spurt of twelve hours 

 from north by west, in 41^° South, as far as 45° 

 South. It then fell calm, and the wind afterwards 

 sprung up from N.N.E., drew to N.W., and blew 

 hard. After which it again fell calm for an hour, 

 then a breeze sprang up from the southward. 

 This, in the course of a few hours, freshened to a 

 hard gale, which lasted about fourteen hours. A 

 calm succeeded, and then a fresh N.E. by north, 

 and easterly wind with rain and squalls as far as 

 the latitude of 50|° South, when it hauled to the 

 S. Eastward, and in 51^° South it fell calm. This 

 was succeeded by a strong westerly, and then 

 north-westerly breeze, with fine clear weather. 

 This carried us to 54° South, when we got N.N.E. 

 and North by West winds, which took us through 

 the Straits of Le Maire. 



We rounded Cape Horn on the 26th of Novem- 

 ber, fifteen days from the river, with a fresh N.N. 

 Westerly breeze. This speedily shifted to the N. 

 W., and then S.W., and again to West, and W.S. 

 W. ; so that we made little westing till we reached 

 6 1 1° South on the first of December. The weather 

 was always moderate, with drizzling rain, and 

 occasional fogs, and a high swell, from S.W. 

 Between the 2d and 3d of December the wind 

 drew to the northward, with a thick fog. Next 

 day it came to the S.W., with sleet squalls, and a 

 thick haze. This wind gradually hauled to the 

 northward of West with hail squalls. An inspection 

 of the track will show how uniformly the winds 

 between 60° and 51^° South gradually drew from 

 the S.W. to westward, then to N.W., and so to the 

 northward, and always squally, with hail and sleet. 

 In 51^° South we had a gale of nine hours from 

 the West, with squalls of hail. This wind, however, 

 instead of drawing to the N.W. and northward, as 

 it had been wont to do in the six preceding de- 

 grees South of us, now hauled W.S.W., and blew 

 fresh, with constant squalls, till we had run on a 

 North by West course (by compass) nearly to 42° 

 South. The wind then, after a short calm, came 

 to the eastward, and drew round gradually to S.S.E. 

 whore it remained steady and fresh till we made 

 the land to the southward of Valparaiso on the 19th 

 of December. We had light airs from the north- 

 ward in the middle of the day, which carried us 

 into the harbour. 



The highest south latitude to which we reached 

 was 61,}°, being then in 75° West longitude. This 

 was in the evening of the first of December 1820. 

 We had then a fresh breeze from the N.W. by 

 West with a thick drizzling haze. The barometer 

 stood at 29,34, and the thermometer at 41°. The 

 farthest west to which we went was 84^°, in lati- 



