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 44 arrival. We found him here, but doubtless brought down by the supercargoes of the Leonora. He urged me strongly to wait until the following day, when the colonel commanding at Colima would call upon me. We quitted the port at dawn.

After a very tedious beat, we succeeded in reaching San Blas on the 27th, but did not gain our berth at the usual anchorage until the following morning, when we found the Starling had been here two days.

No prospect of provisions, and no dispatches.

On the receipt of a letter from my old friend Mr. Barron, our Vice-consul at Tepic, who held out hopes of finding provisions at Mazatlan, which had belonged to a whaler wrecked at Cape St. Lucas, I immediately despatched the Starling to purchase them, with directions to rejoin me off Isabel Island.

Having received a very pressing invitation to come to Tepic, where Mr. Barron was suffering in apprehension of a severe family affliction, and it being essentially necessary that we should arrange about letters, provisions, &c., I set off immediately, accompanied by my assistant-surgeon Mr. Hinds, and Messrs. Simpkinson and Nicholson, mids.

As we entered the town, Mr. Barron's favourite daughter, about eighteen, expired, and it was not for some days that I could communicate with him on service matters. I had already received an invitation from another friend Mr. Forbes, to make his house my resting place during my visit, (I was also his guest in 1828,) and foreseeing the gloominess of the