BAY OF PANAMA. 



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No. XI. 



Galapagos to Panama, 

 l&h of January to 2d of February 1822. 

 ri7 Days.) 



This passage at all times of the year is tedious 

 and uncertain, in consequence of the light baffling 

 winds and calms which belong to the great bight, 

 known under the name of the Bay of Panama; 

 and these winds being also uncertain in direction, 

 the best method seems to be to steer for the port, 

 whenever that can be done. 



For the two first days of our passage, the I7th 

 and 18th of January, we had a fresh breeze from 

 the southward, after which we were much retarded 

 by calms, light winds, and squalls ; and it was not 

 till the 29th that we made the Morro de Puercos, 

 the high land of the promontory forming the west- 

 ern limit of the Bay of Panama. On steering to 

 the eastward, we met a fresh breeze from north im- 

 mediately on our opening the point. This carried 

 us across the bay in the parallel of 7° north. As x 



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