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the coasts all the rest of our passage^ as far as San 

 Blas^ being made by dead beating* The distance from 

 Acapulcowas now less than one hundred and eighty 

 miles, but it cost us eight days hard work to reach 

 it, principally owing to a steady drain of lee- current 

 running east by south at the following daily rates, 

 viz,, thirteen, sixteen^ twenty- seven, thirty-seven, 

 twenty-five, ten, nine, seven, and nine miles. The 

 winds were, meanwhile, from N. W. to N. N. W., 

 with an occasional spurt from south-east and south, 

 and several calms. We had not yet learned the most 

 effectual method of taking advantage of the small 

 variation between the day and night winds. 



No. XIV. 



Acapulco to San Bias, 

 12th to 28th of March 1822. 

 (16 Days,) 



This passage was considered good for the month 

 of March ; but in the latter days of December, and 

 first of January, an English merchant ship made it 

 in ten days, having a fair wind off shore nearly all 

 the day. A merchant brig, which passed Acapulco 



