1892 
Mazatlan 
(Sinaloa) 
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Mazatlan faces an open bay with a low rooky headland and some small 
rooky islets forming a point beyond the toon. The town fronts a fine 
sandy beach on both sides of this point. On the inside of the point a 
broken row of cocoanut palms grew in a line following the sweep of the 
beach and sheltering a row of low, pointed roofed, thatched huts giving 
a remarkable resemblance to the views the books of travellers have 
given us of villages on coral islands of the south Pacific. 
A small but effective lighthouse caps the highest islet off the 
point and a pigpy fort commands the bay and town on the ridge of the 
point itself. We visited the market where a generous display of 
garden truck was the main feature. We felt the unusual heat and went 
aboard early and the steamer left port in the evening, heading down the 
coast again. 
Birds noted at Mazatlan: 
He Iminthophila lutescene 
Bend, auduboni 
Ardea herodias 
Egretta alba 
Nyotherodias violaoeus 
Laras delaw&reneis 
" calif. 
Peleeanus fuseus 
Frigate Bird 
Quiscalus sp.f 
1892 
San Bias 
Jan. 22 
Bid not go ashore here as I will return in a couple of months or so, 
and I had a chance to see some of the people on board from whom 1 ob¬ 
tained some desired information* 
Groups of oocoanut trees shading low white buildings give the same 
effect here as noted at Masatlan. This is a very open harbor with 
something the appearance of Mazatlan harbor but even less sheltered and 
forming a dangerous landing in rough weather. A number of lives have 
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