[162] The high barren island of San Lorenzo, which Cieza de Leon called the island of Lima, forms the spacious and safe anchorage of Callao Bay.
[163] 12° 4´ S.
[164] Sangalla, so called also by Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman (p. 149), Herrera, and others, was no doubt close to the modern Pisco, which is in latitude 13° 43´ S. If Sangalla is not identical with Pisco, it was probably on the site of the modern village of Paraccas, a few miles further south, and about in the latitude given by Cieza de Leon. There is an island still called Sangallan, off the peninsula of Paraccas, about two miles and a half long, with a bold cliffy outline.
[165] See chapter lix.
[166] These are the Ballista and Chincha islands: the latter, now so famous for their guano deposits, supplying all the world with that rich manure, which forms the chief item in the revenue of modern Peru.
[167] Cape Nasca is a lofty bluff, one thousand and twenty feet high, in 14° 57´ S.; there is an anchorage called Caballas Roads to the westward, rocky and shallow, “which should only be known to be avoided.” The Beagle was at anchor there for twenty-four hours without being able to effect a landing. I rode along the whole of this coast in January 1853, a most desolate miserable region. Near Cape Nasca there are a few huts, called Sta. Anna, used as a bathing station for the ladies of Nasca, San Xavier, and other coast valleys.
[168] In latitude 15° 11´ S.
[169] In latitude 15° 20´ S. The port of Acari is called San Juan, and is one of the best on the coast; but wood, water, and provisions are all brought from a distance.
[170] In latitude 16° 42´ S. The anchorage is much exposed, but landing is tolerably good. Quilca was the port of Arequipa in Spanish times, but since 1827 it has given place to Islay, another port a short distance down the coast.
[171] In lat. 17° 7´ there is a point of that name, a few miles S.E. of Islay.