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The loading was bale goods, with some things belonging to the bishop, and a considerable quantity of pearls; but the bishop had been landed at Point St Helena, whence he was to go by land to Guayaquil. Many of the passengers were considerable merchants at Lima, and the briskest Spaniards I ever saw.
In Guayaquil there were three parties, one on the side of Peru, one on the side of Colombia, and a third which desired the independence of that section.
With the remaining ships, the O'Higgins, the Lautaro, the Galvarino, and the Puyrredon, Lord Cochrane proceeded to the mouth of the River Guayaquil. There, on the 28th of the month, he captured two large Spanish vessels, one of twenty and the other of sixteen guns, laden with timber, and took possession of the village of Puna.
The Vettor Pisani has up the present visited Gibraltar, Cape Verde Islands, Pernambuco, Rio Janeiro, Monte Video, Valparaiso, many ports of Peru, Guayaquil, Panama, Galapagos Islands, and all the collections were up to this sent to the Zoological Station at Naples to be studied by the naturalists.
Sailed on steamship Chile with about thirty passengers, all Spanish Americans, bound for Equador, Peru or Chile. December 3rd. Reached the Equator, and I donned warmer clothes. We saw whales, sharks, porpoises, rays and thrashers. Entered the Guayaquil River. Here was where Pizarro first landed and obtained a footing. The steamer anchored in quarantine a mile below the city.
It was a feast day and they'd run an excursion up country but of Guayaquil, and this was the crowd coming back. "And the crowd there was five thousand of them wanted to get ferried across, and the ferry was at the bottom of the river, which wasn't our fault. But by the Spiggoty arithmetic, it was. 'Kill the Gringos! shouts one of them. And right there the beans were spilled.
In Callao he assumed power, organized the insurgents of the city, and undertook other military operations. The royalists remained in Lima for a short while only, and then their opponents reoccupied the city. Once more Bolivar was obliged to leave Guayaquil, this time to go to Quito to defend the city against the pastusos, who had again rebelled.
From Puna to Guayaquil is seven leagues, the entrance into the river of that name being two miles across, and it afterwards runs up into the country with a pretty straight course, the ground on both sides being marshy and full of red mangrove trees.
The fine ships which have been launched from the dockyards of the Havannah, Guayaquil and San Blas have, no doubt, cost more than those constructed in Europe; but from the nature of tropical wood they possess the advantages of hardness and amazing durability. The great struggle during which Venezuela has fought for independence has lasted more than twelve years.
These, by examination of any good globe, will be found on a belt forming one and the same great circle of the earth. The principal record for the remainder of the year comprised: An earthquake at Tabreez in North Persia, early in May, 1883. The fearful eruption in the Straits of Sunda, 25th Aug. and later. Shocks in Sumatra and at Guayaquil, about same date or early in Sept.
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