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NORTH COAST OF PERU. 



No. IX. 



Lima to Pacasmayas^ Payta^ and Guayaquil. 

 I'Jth to 25th of December 1821. 



The winds between Lima and Guayaquil are 

 moderate from the southward ; at night hauling to 

 the south-eastward^ and in the day from S. S. W. 



When we came off the entrance of the river of 

 Guayaquil, on the 23d of December, the wind met 

 us from N. W. and then fell calm. We were ob- 

 liged to anchor on the ebb, and to beat up against 

 the light northerly and north-westerly winds as 

 far as the anchorage off the N. E. end of Puna. In 

 the afternoon of the 24th, we received a pilot from 

 the town of Puna, who undertook to carry us up 

 during the night. We accordingly weighed at 

 four o'clock, and with the flood-tide and a light 

 breeze from west by south, ran up in the dark, 

 and anchored at four in the morning of the 25th 

 off the town of Guayaquil. The pilots of this river 

 are expert, and appear to understand their busi- 

 ness well ; but it is quite indispensable that their 

 wishes be promptly and exactly attended to, as the 



