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A DIARY OF THE 



country surrounding us, to the southward, with 

 tolerable success ; bringing in several partridges, 

 snipes, and a few widgeons. At 5 p. m. the cap- 

 tain received, by way of Arauco, through the 

 governor there, a letter from Lieutenant Collins, 

 stating his inability to procure any vessel to come 

 to our relief, and his intention to take an oppor- 

 tunity of returning with his guide to rejoin us at 

 the Leubu, as he could get no intelligence what- 

 ever relative to the movements of any man-of- 

 war on the coast. This was disheartening 5 but, 

 as letters had been despatched to Santiago, we 

 hoped, through the medium of the Chilian go- 

 vernment, soon to have some satisfactory com- 

 munication. Towards evening, after the usual 

 muster of the arms had been gone through, a 

 tolerably successful haul of the seine was got. 



June 13. — The morning cloudy, the wind 

 northerly ; the tents very damp : a few small fires 

 were lighted in, and at the entrance of, some of 

 them, to endeavour to dry them. The caciques 

 Cheuquante and Rafael Lobo paid us a visit to see 

 what they could get from us, bringing an offering 

 of some avellanos, which was their usual hait. 

 They gave us the account of Pinoleo having 

 killed the wife we saw at Molquilla. We this 



