MEXICAN DIARY CF E, W. NBLSC t? 
(1892 - 19 . ) 
About 1 p.m, today, we left San Francisco on board the Pacific Mail 
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San Francisco SS Acapulco (Capt. Potts) for Manzanillo, Mexico. Only a few cabin 
California 
passengers are on board. 
Jan. IS 
The sea was very smooth and we steamed quietly off to the south 
and into a bank of fog before dark. The last sound as I lost myself 
in sleep was the hoarse note of the fog-whistle. 
Jan. 15 The smooth sea and fog kept with us until we were south of San 
to 
Diego when it became loss and less, until off Cerros Island we had a 
clear sky. From San Francisco to this point, Larus argentatus smith- 
aonianus. L. eallfornious and L. glauoescene have been eorarton. As we 
passed the high rocky island, a single pair of Frigate Birds came 
circling about in our neighborhood but without paying any attention to 
us* Dlomedea braohyura was with us until we were off Cape St. Lucas. 
The Larus glaucesoens did not follow us south of Cerros Island. 
A few petrels and fulmars were seen at too great distance to 
identify. 
Cerros Island was passed at some distance, so I could only make out 
a mass of high rocky and broken surface rising to 2000 or 3000 feet, 
and apparently very barren. 
The next day ( ) we passed Magdalena Bay which seems to 
be surrounded by high hills or low mountains on the seaward side. 
The range of mountains on the mainland south of Cerros Island Is 
lew and barren, not appearing to rise over 1500 or 2000 feet. 
1892 
Cape 
San Lucas 
(L.Calif.) 
Jan. 20 
Early this morning we were rounding Cape St. Lucas. Scarcely a 
bird was seen except a few Larus calif , and L. heermanni . The 
mountains appear to occupy most of the southern point of the peninsula, 
the Cape being a low rooky headland with two jutting rooks just off 
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