pim’s bay. 
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you, while your own countrymen will desert you in 
the hour of need, just as they have' served me in the 
new treaty about to he concluded.” (See Appendix.) 
u Well, King,” said I, “ there can he no doubt of 
the great advantage of opening a new route through 
Mosquito and Nicaragua. So let us have a look at 
my proposed Atlantic terminus, under Monkey Point, 
which even the treaty you speak of still leaves in your 
territory.” 
It so happened that when we started from Grey- 
town a norther was blowing, which increased in vio¬ 
lence as we advanced to the northward; so that ample 
opportunity was afforded for testing the security of 
the anchorage at Pirn’s Bay, and its general adapta¬ 
bility for a great terminal port; and certainly nothing 
could have been more satisfactory than the result. 
The ship lay completely sheltered from the violence of 
the wind, while the surface of the bay was perfectly 
smooth. 
But I must give a short account of this locality, 
destined, I hope, to he one of these days the site of a 
thriving town, the entrepot of a considerable commerce 
and the terminus of a great transit. 
On this coast the harbours are subject to two serious 
drawbacks, first, the periodical recurrence of northers, 
which blow with great violence, and, second, the ac¬ 
cumulation of alluvial deposits brought down by the 
rivers, which have in the course of time turned the 
once noble harbours of Cape Gracias, Pearl Cay, Blew- 
fields, and Grey town into shallow lagoons. Neither 
of these drawbacks affect “ Pirn’s Bay; ” it is entirely 
