"appears to prevail south of this port. Dropped anchor at Aguadilla at 4 P.M., remained until dark so we went ashore. The town lies on a long rocky reef which juts out into the ocean as a broad flat shelf. The point forms a breakwater protects the bay north of it from the long swell & the Humboldt current. Nearly all the harbors are similarly formed by a southern point or reef cutting off deflecting the Humboldt current away from the land south of the Pacific swell which does not seem ever to be deflected deflects it later from the north east or west. The town of Aguadilla has wide streets, fine shops & stores in Madeira. Everywhere along it however stretches the barren bleak