VOYAGE TO PANAMA. 



little disposed to be turned adrift on an island 

 without a single European^ or Spanish Creole 

 to whom I could have recourse^ with the pro- 

 bability of being delayed there by foul winds^ 

 or the want of a conveyance, for several days. 

 At last. Captain Mott, partly from good- 

 nature, and partly in consideration of a further 

 sum, was prevailed upon to take me' into the 

 bay of Panama, and set me on shore at a 

 little island, called Tobogo, which is nine miles 

 from the city. I therefore kept the mulatto boat- 

 man for a pilot, and we set all sail for Tobogo, 

 in the Crawford. I had no reason to repent 

 this arrangement, for not ten minutes after, a 

 squall, the approach of which we had foreseen, 

 came on so violently^ and was followed by 

 such a fresh breeze, that the pilot declared 

 no canoa de las Per las could have \^entured 

 that day to sea. As for the Crawford, she 



