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LIMA. 



beautiful mahogany resplendent with varnisli* 

 After this interesting visit to the Brandywine^ 

 we visited the French man-of-war^ to whose 

 captain I had before been introduced. We 

 found him seated in a little cabin^ furnished 

 like a museum^ with shells^ and geological speci- 

 mens, and a number of pretty nicknacks, which 

 Avill doubtless be transferred some day to the 

 boudoir of his wife, whom he was obliged to 

 leave at Marseilles, a fortnight after his mar- 

 riage, in order to cross the ocean, on a three 

 years' voyage. Such is a sailor^s fate ! 



At ten o'clock the next night I left the 

 Blonde, and went on board the little Tyrian, 

 which was then getting up her anchor, and we 

 were soon under sail for Payta, with a fair and 

 fresh breeze. 



I have been now nearly three days at sea, 

 running down the coast with the trade, myself 



