Note 167 — Chapter V

Cape Nasca is a lofty bluff, one thousand and twenty feet high, in 14° 57´ S.; there is an anchorage called Caballas Roads to the westward, rocky and shallow, “which should only be known to be avoided.” The Beagle was at anchor there for twenty-four hours without being able to effect a landing. I rode along the whole of this coast in January 1853, a most desolate miserable region. Near Cape Nasca there are a few huts, called Sta. Anna, used as a bathing station for the ladies of Nasca, San Xavier, and other coast valleys.