EXTRACTS 



FROM 



A JOURNAL. 



CHAPTER I. 

 CHILI. 



PASSAGE OF CAPE HORN ARRIVAL AT VALPARAISO-— 



VISIT TO SANTIAGO, THE CAPITAL OF CHILI. 



His Majesty's ship CJonway, under my com- 

 mand, sailed from England on the lOtli of Au- 

 gust 1820 ; and having touched at Teneriffe, Rio 

 de Janeiro, and the River Plate, received orders 

 to proceed to Valparaiso, the principal sea-port 

 on the coast of Chili. 



The passage round Cape Horn has acquired 

 such celebrity in nautical history, from the diffi- 

 culties encountered by Anson, that no one, ac- 



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