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were large flocks of small gulls & petrels. A few large white booby were seen & a dark species of sheerwater. The weather was cooler today & the coast cloudy so that the high Andes and their peaks of Chimborazo & Cocopaxi could not be seen. The old travellers say they seldom can be seen from the coast. After passing Plata Island the coast line became invisible. At sunset we passed a small islet on which there was a light house. [[circled]] 21 [[/circled]] In the early morning we were off Puna Island and spent the morning steaming up the Guayas River to an anchorage off Guayaquil. The river was wide the water brown- [[mud?]] [[strikethrough]] & th [[/strikethrough]] with much floating vegetation, consisting of [[underlined]] pistias [[/underlined]] bamboo stems & water hyacinths. The banks of the river were low &
Transcription Notes:
Cocopaxi is probably a misspelling for Cotopaxi, but I left it as written. I changed "Chimbarazo" to "Chimborazo". thomasc