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COAST OF MEXICO, 



afternoon^ we anchored at San Bias, having com- 

 pleted a coasting voyage from the Island of Mo- 

 cho, on the south coast of Chili, nearly to Cali- 

 fornia, a distance of four thousand six hundred 

 miles ; during the whole of which, with the ex- 

 ception of about two hundred leagues between 

 Guayaquil and Panama, the land was constantly 

 in sight. 



