At 4 P.M., we passed one of the Nicolas Island, a small mountain, in in shape like St. Paul's having a fleecy cloud blowing on the summit. [27] Weather fine & sea with only a short ship! The vessel altogether constantly listed from side to side going any motion roll or pitch [28] This morning we passed a lone grayish rock rising some 10 feet out of the sea. But the Peruvian coast was not visible. There were flocky dark steams, & somewhat reddish birds streaming about the dull gray waters near the rock. At more or less distant hills some 40 miles east, we came up