ABSTRACT
At three o’clock the following morning, having hoisted our launch and after using the launch of a nearby merchant vessel from Lima 1 to weigh the kedge, we prepared to set sail, intending to make use of the light land breeze that usually blows at dawn, before the tide set against us. However, as there was no breeze at all and as the tide began to flood at six in the morning, our progress, under tow, was extremely slow. Shortly before seven we had to drop a kedge in four fathoms, almost abeam of the sandy flats by the watering place and about two cables ahead of the merchant vessel Belencito. 2
