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m the mouth of the Atrato, beyond the cape of La Vela 
S.wf leagues, has a general direction from’ 
The wind liaving dropped during the night we could 
only ai vaimo to the island of Arenas, where we anchored 
."Zv d ?r f: '■OcnSih.cle. Tl.e weuther ELiiile 
of the^20tli morning 
Sat df to reach Boca Cdiica 
tliat clay I he gale blew with extreme violence and we 
were unable to proceed with our frail bark against X wind 
Sds manoeuvre insetting the 
sails, (fle had but four sailors), we were duriim some 
a Aery bold mariner, declined to proceed further up the 
coast, and we took refuge, sheltered from the wind, Tn a nook 
ot he island of Ban,, south of Bunta Gigantes. It was 
tlic Orinoeo*'^^’ ' f wjio had accompanied us to 
the Oi inoco, and did not leave us till we returned to France 
reininded us that on the same Sunday in the preeedino- year’ 
Uremna " 
There was to be an eclipse of the moon during the ni-lit 
“tioiroTri,e‘^?l-f occultation of a Virginis. The obser- 
Aation ot the latter phenomenon might have been verv 
important in determining the longitude of Catliagena. In 
lain I urged the captain to allow one of his sailors to accom- 
tive mdes ^’n 1 •" ‘li^tanee of 
eonnh-v t \ - “count of the wild state of the 
ounhy, m aa Inch there is neither habitation nor path. A 
mole rendered Palin-Sunday 
more fatal, justified the prudence of the captain. We went 
nrnn^ i*° f°^^cet plants on the shore; as we ap- 
11 eifwbi loaded lAptli chains, and 
n' ^; , machete lie invited us to' land on a part 
wL if ’ TiZ Tn mangroves, as being a spot 
ti r iTelr'l- l>fak, imd offered to condud; us to 
o-ive wTln ^ island of Baru, if we would promise to 
thi oZn T cunning and wild appearance, 
the often-repeated question whether Ave were Spaniards, 
and certain unintelligible words which he addressecl to some 
