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THE VOYAGE ROUND CAPE HORN.
DEPARTURE FROM RIO JANEIRO--SANTOS AND ST.

PAULO--CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF CAPE HORN--THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN--ARRIVAL IN VALPARAISO--8TH DECEMBER, 1846, TO 2ND MARCH, 1847.
When I paid 25 pounds for my place in the fine English barque, "John Renwick," Captain Bell, the latter promised me that he would be ready to sail on the 25th of November at the latest, and would stop at no intermediate port, but shape his course direct to Valparaiso.
The first part of this promise I believed, because he assured me that every day he stopped cost him 7 pounds; and the second, because, as a general rule, I willingly believe every one, even ship captains.

In both particulars, however, was I deceived; for it was not until the 8th of December that I received a notice to go on board that evening and then for the first time the captain informed me that he must run into Santos, to lay in a stock of provisions, which were there much cheaper than in Rio Janeiro; that he also intended clearing out a cargo of coal and taking in another of sugar.

He did not tell me till we arrived in Santos itself, where he also assured me that all these different matters would not take him more than three or four days.
I took leave of my friends and went on board in the evening; Count Berchthold and Messrs.