DESCRIPTION OF ST. MICHAEL'S. 311 



hats of the men^ and cloaks of the women^ on 

 first landings was very striking : the former having 

 all the appearance of horns sticking up on each 

 side. They are made of blue cloth^ like a hunt- 

 ing cap^ with an immense fronts but the peak 

 turns up on each side in the peculiar shape of 

 horns ; behind is a fall of cloth^ which drops on 

 the shoulders like a cape^ keeping out sun or 

 rain. The women wear large blue cloth cloaks, 

 with an immense hood turning over their heads 

 in the shape of a nautilus shelly so that you can- 

 not see their faces^ being muffled up almost as 

 much as the ladies of Lima. 



The anchorage of St. Michael's is by no means 

 safe^ for there is little less than eighteen fathoms 

 water in any part of it. A south-west wind sets 

 right in^ so that when it blows at all strong, ves- 

 sels are obliged to start from their anchors. Two 

 small ones had been wrecked but a week previous 

 to our arrival ; a NE. wind comes down the 

 high mountains in such furious squalls, as to 



