BRAZIL TO BUENOS AYllES. 



9 



No. I. 



From Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Ayres. 

 P.M. im of October to A. M. 23d, 1820. 

 (S^Daps.) 



This passage was made in less time than it 

 usually occupies. We passed the Sugar Loaf at the 

 entrance of Rio about four o'clock in the afternoon 

 of Saturday the 14th of October 1820, and were off 

 Maldanado, at the entrance of the river Plate, at the 

 same hour on that day week, viz. the 21st, and an- 

 chored off Buenos Ayres at four in the morning of 

 Monday the 23d; thus completing seven days from 

 Rio to the river Plate ; and eight and a half from 

 Rio to Buenos Ayres. 



The wind was moderate, from E. S, E, as far as 

 latitude 26° 46' south, when it drew to N. E., and 

 blew fresh ; it then hauled gradually to the north- 

 ward. In 33"^ it fell light, and drew to the west- 

 ward, south, and so round to the eastward. On 

 approaching the river it came to the southward 

 again ; after entering which, the wind came from 

 the S. E., and afterwards N. E. and East, moderate, 

 and fine weather. 



An American frigate, which sailed from Rio a 



