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Ar^na. The men could not procure any ; but 

 found a pipe of very tolerable rum, driven on 

 shore from some wreck, which they started 

 into demi-johns, and brought on board ; when, 

 beginning to drink it, they soon became in- 

 toxicated. 



March 25th. Weighed anchor at daylight, 

 and beat round Puerto-Ar6na, where the wind 

 became fair ; shaped our course between the 

 heavy breakers that lay about four miles to 

 windward of the eastern point of Punta-Ar6na: 

 — they appeared very awful, especially as we 

 had to pass near, and a sudden change of wind 

 would have thrown us on them. Before dark, 

 came in sight of the small island of Puerto, 

 and continued beating up all night towards the 

 islands of San Bernardo. 



March 26th. At eight, a. m., passed the 

 islands of San Bernardo, which lie a long way 

 out from the coast, and are very low and 

 dangerous. The breeze freshening, we soon 

 gained the island of Baru, and passing up on 

 the inside, arrived at an apparently complete 

 stoppage, composed of brushwood, growing 

 out of a marshy lagoon. Here we shortened 

 sail and took to our poles; when, by going 



