dry & brisk S.E., trades blowing blowing up a few white caps at a tumbling sea. The S.E. trades have deviated from north of east even N.E, 25 at 7 A.M., we were a few miles off Rio de Janeiro. About 5 miles off the coast. Before us loomed the great granite mass of Gavea (the main sail). This a square topped solid granite rock nearly 2000 ft. high. Beyond it & the mouth of the harbor loomed the conical dome of the Sugar Loaf Mountain. Harder over a high peak with a perpendicular peak with a building on the summit at is known as Frijaca Forcada or The sculptured high pinacles are all gray granite & their sides are smooth masses of the same rock.