. The Spanish-American republics . in the night, anchored, and slept happily until daybreak,when we blew the steam-whistle to warn the inhabitants of our pres-ence. At length the captain of the port came on board, and we wereat liberty to go ashore; but the landing was difficult and dangerous:owing to the roughness of the water and the primitiveness of themoles, we had to be hoisted out of the ships boat with ropes. Thetown does not offer much to interest the visitor. In the bay are twocoal hulks, an American schooner at anchor, several small coastingschooners used for seal-fishing and local s
. The Spanish-American republics . in the night, anchored, and slept happily until daybreak,when we blew the steam-whistle to warn the inhabitants of our pres-ence. At length the captain of the port came on board, and we wereat liberty to go ashore; but the landing was difficult and dangerous:owing to the roughness of the water and the primitiveness of themoles, we had to be hoisted out of the ships boat with ropes. Thetown does not offer much to interest the visitor. In the bay are twocoal hulks, an American schooner at anchor, several small coastingschooners used for seal-fishing and local service, and a Chilian surveysteamer. To the north of the town is a government depot, with half adozen buoys lying on the sandy shore, and looking from a distancelike gigantic spinning tops. Still farther to the north is an old light-house tower, painted red and white, which was used by the Germanastronomical mission at the time of the last passage of Venus. Be-yond the light-house the land becomes flat, and stretches out into the. GLACIER, LATITUDE 530 2l SOUTH, LONGITUDE J2° 55 WEST. 2 = 2 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS.
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