Mr. WAFER'* Voyages, &c. 387 



River of ¥lo 9 but could find little or no Water : 

 Yet at another Time of the Year there was Water 

 enough ; although I never knew of any Rain on 

 that Coaft, and the Spaniards told us, it never 

 rain'd there, unlefs far within Land : Yet they have 

 .very great Dews. At Copayapo the Coaft is barren Barren 

 and defolate, and fo on each Side all along both CM- Land, 

 /zand Peru •, nothing is to be feen but bare Sands, 

 and naked Rocks, unlefs in a Valley now and then : 

 No Trees, Herbs, or other green Thing. Nor 

 did we fee any Sort of Fowl, nor Beaft or other li- 

 ving Creature : No People, nor fign of any ; un- 

 lefs here and there a poor Town or Village, at as 

 forry a Port, with fcarce Water enough, at molt 

 of them, to admit a Cock-boat, unlefs at a Flood : 

 Elfe little or no Water, nor any Thing for Accom- 

 modation or Ufe. 



Getting no Water at Copayapo, we were forc'd 

 to put to Sea again, and ftood along the Coaft to A- 

 rica, which is a Town of Peru, handfomely feated Artca^ 

 in the bending of that Coaft, in the Lat. of between 'he Port 

 18 and 19 S. Hither the Silver of Potcfi is brought ^Ve^of 

 down to be fhipt off for Panama, for the Harbour I JSoji 

 is tolerably good, having a Road made wich a little 

 Ifland lying before it, breaking the Swell of the Sea, 

 which is here very great and continually rowling 

 in upon the Shore, though fmooth as the Surface 

 of a River, here being little or no Wind to curl 

 the Waves. It dafties fo violent againft the Shore, 

 which is all along a high bold Coaft, though no- de$. 

 thing fo high as the Mountains far within j^and, 

 that there is fcarce any Landing hereabouts but juit 

 at Arica it felf. There is a little River which Arica 

 Hands upon, and we would have taken in Water 

 there ; but there was no getting at any frefh, for 

 its Outlet was among little craggy Rocks, and the 

 Sea-water dafh'd in among it. We landed here, and 

 ranfack'd the Place, meeting with little or no Re- 



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