46 ARRIVAL AT VALPARAISO. 



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following morning he returned, and reported there was a 

 chain-cable in the government stores, but no anchors ; the 

 only one to be obtained belonged to H. B. M. ship "Presi- 

 dent," which Captain Lock kindly offered us the loan of. 

 Received the anchor on board, and got it ready for letting go. 

 On the 15th, we came-to in the roads of Valparaiso ; — 



" Where Valparaiso's cliffs and flowers, 

 In mirror'd wildness, sweep 

 Their shadows round the mermaid's bower, 

 Our steadfast anchors sleep." 



On the same day the American ship " Meriposa" from New 

 York, with stores for the squadron, arrived. Her master was 

 kind enough to send us a large file of newspapers, all of which 

 we read with infinite satisfaction. 



