260 DOTTINGS ON THE ROADSIDE. [Chap. XVI.-B. P- 
the first “cay” (the West Indian name for islet), 
which is met with to the northward of Chiriqui 
Lagoon; it is quite as remarkable as Bound Hill. 
Coming from the north it looks like a conical green 
hill, but from the south it is shaped like a wedge, the 
sharp end seaward. Probably no human foot has ever 
trod its steep sides, as it is so rocky and rugged that 
landing is very difficult. It is called Pajaro Bovo— 
“Booby Bird”—from the number of boobies which 
take up their residence upon it. 
If coasting along from Grey town gave us pleasure, 
we were still more pleased when we reached the 
vicinity of the Kama river and Pirn’s Bay. Away to 
the N.W. stretched the broken Cordillera, gradually 
increasing in height as it receded from Monkey Point, 
which, to speak more accurately, is a headland, or 
rather a series of bluffs, jutting into the sea like 
buttresses, forming a very appropriate termination 
to the remarkable chain of mountains extending 
through this section of Central America, dividing its 
watershed. The transverse valley of the Nicaraguan 
lakes, and their outlet, the river San Juan, break the 
continuity of this range, which would otherwise reach 
in an unbroken line through Costa Rica as far as the 
Isthmus of Panama. 
At Greytown, in clear weather, the volcano of Car¬ 
tage, the king of the Cordillera in Central America, can 
be seen dominating the mountains beneath him from a 
height of 11,000 feet, and sending out volumes of 
smoke; it is 55 miles from Greytown, due south. The 
summit is cone-shaped, like that of most, if not all, of 
