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although the period in which they may have been 

 made be limited^ I have given, in the two following 

 notices, a brief abstract of the Conway's- passages 

 from Panama to Acapulco, and from Acapulco to 

 San Bias. The original notes from whence they are 

 taken are too minute to interest any person not ac- 

 tually proceeding to that quarter of the world. 



No. XIII. 



Panama to Acapulco. 

 5th of February to "Jth of March 1822. 

 (30 Days.) 



We sailed from Panama on the -ith of February, 

 and anchored on that afternoon at the Island of Ta- 

 boga, where we filled up our water. Next evening, 

 the 5th, we ran out of the bay with a fresh N. N. W. 

 wind, and at half past two in the morning of the 6th 

 rounded Point Mala, and hauled to the westward. 

 As the day advanced the breeze slackened and drew 

 to the southward. In twenty-four hours, however, 

 we had run one hundred and forty miles, and were 

 entirely clear of the bight of Panama. It cost us 

 nearly six days more before we came abreast of Cape 



