The fire, bed, and situation showed the dexterity of an Indian; but he could scarcely have been an Indian, for the race is in this part extinct, owing to the Catholic desire of making at one blow Christians and Slaves.

I had at the time some misgivings that the solitary man who had made his bed on this wild spot, must have been some poor shipwrecked sailor, who, in trying to travel up the coast, had here laid himself down for his dreary night.
DECEMBER 28, 1834.
The weather continued very bad, but it at last permitted us to proceed with the survey.

The time hung heavy on our hands, as it always did when we were delayed from day to day by successive gales of wind.

In the evening another harbour was discovered, where we anchored.

Directly afterwards a man was seen waving his shirt, and a boat was sent which brought back two seamen.