1892 
Cape 
San Lucas 
(L.Calif.) 
Jan. 20 
1892 
Mazatlan 
(Sinaloa) 
Jan. 21 
shore in the sea. - 
The SW side of point is rolling and rises to the high mountains 
toward the interior a few miles. The hills along the shore are sandy 
but covered with a generally distributed growth of bushes. This 
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bushy growth extends all around the end as far as I could see. The 
town at the Cape is a small one of slight importance, but 12 miles 
further around on the gulf side is San Jose del Cabo which is quite a 
place at the mouth of a Email river that flows southward for some 60 
miles through a fertile valley several miles lying along the eastern 
base of the main range of mountains. 
W© soon left the Cap© behind and steamed slowly off across the 
gulf, passing a schooner becalmed on the gulf. 
Oddly enough, among the few cabin passengers on board, I find two 
who knew friends of mine. One, a Mr. Chestnut of Oakland, California, 
is a friend of Mr. Bryant*s of the Calif, Acad, of Science, and of 
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Dikeman and Palmer of the Biol. Survey. Four of the passengers are 
en route to mines in which they are interested, and another is a 
coffee planter going to his place in Chiapas. 
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Early in the morning we dropped anchor at this place in an open 
harbor. 
The totm is about a couple of miles from the anchorage and is marked 
by a fringe of cocoanut palms along a curving line of sandy beach. 
The low houses peeping out from this shelter give the first view 
of the town a decidedly tropioal air. The entrance to the harbor is 
marked by some rocky islets from 100 to 200 feet high on which are 
located a lighthouse and a small battery of guns taken from an old 
warfihip now lying at the head of the harbor and used as a naval training 
ship. W© landed and strolled about town for a short time. 
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