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a little exhausted a rope doubled is thrown to 

 him^ through which he contrives to thrust his 

 fore-paws^ and get it under his body ; and when 

 thus noosed^ he suffers himself to to be hauled 

 up like a water- cask. 



Lima, March 22. — We arrived opposite to the 

 island of San Lorenzo, which forms one side of 

 Callao bay at night. The darkness made it 

 dangerous to attempt an entrance, as no one 

 on board had been there before. We there- 

 fore stood off until the morning, when we found 

 that the current had taken us to leeward of 

 Callao harbour : we consumed all the next day 

 in beating to our anchorage against the trade- 

 wind. The day before we made the coast I 

 witnessed the curious phenomenon of a fog- 

 bank, which sometimes deceives even the prac- 

 tised eye of a sailor, who is not assured of the 

 absence of land in that direction. 



