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SOUTH-WEST COAST OF 



Blanco de Nicoya ; at first we had light winds from 

 S. S. W.^ then a moderate breeze from N. N. W., 

 which backed round to the eastward^ and was fol- 

 lowed by a calm : during each day we had the wind 

 from almost every point of the compass, but light 

 and uncertain. Between the 11th and 12th, we 

 passed Cape Blanco de Nicoya with a fresh breeze 

 from S. S. E. and then S, S, W., which shifted sud- 

 denly to the northward, afterwards to the N. N, E., 

 where it blew fresh for upwards of twenty-four 

 hours, and enabled us to run more than two hund- 

 red and thirty miles to the west-north- westward in 

 one day. This breeze, which is known by the name 

 of Papagayo, failed us after passing the Gulf of the 

 same name, and we then came within the influence of 

 adverse currents. On reaching the longitude of 92° 

 west, on the l6th we were set S. 16, W. 77 miles ; 

 on the 17th, N. 16 miles; on the 18th, E. 51 miles; 

 on the 19th, S. 78°, E. 63 miles ; on the 20th, S.62°, 

 E. 45 miles ; on the 21st, S. 87° E. 17| miles ; all of 

 which we experienced between 91° and 93° west, at 

 the distance of twenty or thirty leagues from the 

 shore, meanwhile we had N. N. E. and northerly 

 winds, and calms. 



After these currents slacked^ we made westing as 



