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A vessel had been sighted off Cantil Blanco, the first foreign ship seen since Vancouver's visit fourteen years before. "'It is the Russian expedition which Spain has ordered us to treat courteously, exclaimed Don Luis, bursting into the house, his face aglow with excitement.
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"At length the 'Juno' weighed anchor and the white sails filled with the afternoon breeze. As the Russians came opposite Cantil Blanco, the fort which had scowled so menacingly upon them on their entrance forty-four days before, now smiled with friendly faces.
"I can't show you the exact location," I confessed, "because the United States cut down the bold promontory, Cantil Blanco, in order to place the present fortification close to the water's edge, but if you will use your imagination and picture a white cliff towering a hundred feet above the water at the point where Fort Winfield Scott now stands, you will see the entrance to the bay as it was in Spanish days.
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