[182] I cannot identify this.
[183] In latitude 32° 50´ S. The bay of Quintero is roomy and sheltered during southerly winds.
[184] In latitude 33° S.
[185] Coasters sometimes anchor here for a few hours, but there is no place fit for a vessel of two hundred tons.
[186] In latitude 36° 47´ S.
[187] He must mean the island of Mocha.
[188] In latitude 39° 49´ S.
[189] The above is, on the whole, an excellent account of the coast from Panama to Valdivia. It agrees, in all essential points, with Admiral Fitz-Roy’s sailing directions printed in 1851; and Cieza de Leon deserves great credit for his care and diligence in collecting what, in those days, must have been very useful information. Indeed, it is not a little remarkable that, in those early days of the conquest, the old Spanish pilots should have completed a manual of sailing directions such as is contained in the preceding chapters, on a plan very similar to those now issued by the Hydrographic Office.
[190] Or Darien.
[191] Or Atrato.