Feb, 21, Slept well and although the boat was small and 

 not particularly clean on deck, there was no vermin in the 

 stateroom. We were up and out on deck by 7,30 and found 

 ourselves in a group of small islands, making stops every 

 few minutes. At Achao we landed three lighters of pass- 

 engers and one of freight - mostly fruit and vegetables. 

 At none of these islands is there a wharf so everywhere 

 landings are made by lighter. Next island after Achao was 

 Chaulinec, a smaller island directly out from Castro. Here 

 we landed a few people, some groceries and four casks of 

 wine. The wine casks are merely thrown overboard and al- 

 lowed to drift ashore. From Chaulinec we turned in toward 

 Castro, running between Quehui and Chelin and stopping at 

 each of them. After leaving Chelin we went to lunch, per- 

 haps the most disagreeable meal that I have ever eaten. 

 The dining room was crowded, we were seated at tables of 

 twelve and the food was served without neatness but with 

 much dispatch. The ceiling of the room was black with 

 flies with more than an occasional large roach. Every so 

 often a roach would miss his footing and drop onto the 

 table. While at lunch we stopped at Pulquedon on the is- 

 land of Lemuy. That was the last stop before Castro where 

 we arrived about three. We were landed by rowboat at five 

 pesos a head and our baggage was adopted by a small boy 



who carried it to the hotel, five city blocks away and all 

 up hill, for ten pesos. The Hotel Luxor was practically 

 new, a frame building of two or three stories. It was 

 clean and we had a small room each. Our only complaint 

 was that the partitions were thin and not noise-proof. We 

 walked a bit about town and sat for some time in the plaza 



SS Chacao lying off Castro 



