VOYAGE TO PANAMA. 



CHAPTER VTII. 



VOYAGE TO PANAMA. 



Agreement with an American captain— Temple's Travels 

 in Peru — The gauchos of Tucuman — Cheap living 

 — Rain after two years' drought — Curious appearance 

 of the shore — Voyage to the Pearl Islands — A calm — 

 An English whaler — News from Otaheite and the 

 Galapagos Islands — Amusements at sea — Arrival at 

 the Isla del Rey — The Pearl Islands — Right of pearl- 

 fishery vested in Rundell and Bridge — Failure of the 

 speculation — An Indian village — Escape from the 

 Sharks— Arrival at Panama. ' , 



April 12th. — I am not sorry to have failed 

 in persuading an Indian to navigate me in his 

 boat to Panama^ across the hne, in a heavy 

 swell, and under a vertical sun; for Captain 



