Captain Townley Went With 140 Men In Twelve Canoes To Endeavour To Cut
Out The Lima Ship; But Finding Her At Anchor Within 100 Yards Of Both
The Castle And Platform, Found It Impossible To Effect His Purpose, So
That He Was Obliged To Return Much Dissatisfied.
We accordingly sailed
on the 11th November along the coast to the N.W. between Acapulco and
Petaplan, where we found every where good anchorage two miles from
shore, but the surf beat with such violence on the coast that there was
no safe landing.
Near the sea the country was low, and abounding in
trees, especially spreading palm-trees, some of which were twenty or
thirty feet high in the stem, but of no great size. This part of the
country was intermixed with many small hills, mostly barren, but the
vallies seemed fertile. The hill of Petaplan, or Petatlan, sends out a
round point into the sea, called Cape Jequena, in lat. 17 deg. 27' N.
which appears from sea like an island, and a little farther west there
is a knot of round hills, having an intervening bay, in which we
anchored in eleven fathoms. We here landed 170 men, who marched fourteen
miles into the country, when they reached a wretched Indian village,
deserted by the inhabitants, so that we only found one mulatto-woman and
four young children.
Proceeding on the 18th about two leagues farther to the N.W. we came to
a pretty good harbour named Chequetan, having the convenience of a
good fresh-wafer river and plenty of wood.
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