September 6^th
"Arrived in Montevideo Roads and found here the Scylla waiting for us and also the corvettes Pylades and Racoon. We lay about four miles from the town as it blew a great deal the first night here."

"I don�t think much of this place, very dirty and everything very expensive except sheep which are very numerous. Buenos Ayres was too far up the river for one to go. I noticed one thing about this place � all the girls are very pretty."

© Copyright Charles Fountain May 2002

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