VOYAGE 
TO THE 
PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
CHAPTER I. 
Departure from Tenenffe Sun eclipsed—Fernanda Norhona— Make the Coast 
Braz.l-R .0 Janerro-Passage round Cape Horn-Conception-Valparaiso. 
On the 19th of May we weighed from Spithead, and the following CHAP. 
o wTsT cn T *’'® Devonshire coast, and steered '• 
out of the Channel with a fair wind. For several days afterwards our 
toTw ft ™ boisterous weather, for which the approach 
tolerablv^^ ll proverbial. We however escaped 
tbe soufhli ®*™“vable breezes soon succeeding, we advanced to 
clear dav rh ascertained, by running over the spot in a fine 
the situation wWchiUiaTf'’ ‘“”“h 
the next momin “ number of years occupied in our charts : 
oil’ Teneriffe * *** passed the Desertas, and on the 1st of June were 
f t purposed touching at Santa Cruz, we immediately hauled un 
for the land, and it was a fortunate circumstance that we did so for 
so strong a current set to the southward during the nivht that ’had 
there would have been much difficulty in regaining it. I mention the 
circumstance with a view of bringing into notice the great southerly 
B 
June. 
