From Panamá to Realejo

At dawn, the following day, we set to work with a will to hoist the boats, a task prolonged by the considerable weight of the launch. Finally, towards seven o’clock, we set sail for Islas Otoque ¹ under topsails and topgallants and later under full sail. At first we sounded twenty and twenty-five fathoms, ooze, but we soon obtained greater depths of forty fathoms when, with the aim of avoiding the shoal surveyed on the previous days, we set a course to pass three cables off the [eastern] extremity of Isla Urava. ² Our observed longitude at ten-thirty, on the meridian of Islote de Otoque, ³ was [blank] and the latitude by meridian altitudes of the Sun was [blank]. ⁴