On the coast of Peru, opposite the town of Pisco are the _Isles of Lobos_, or the Sea Wolves, where numbers of seals and other aquatic animals may be caught; they are also, however, mere rocks; north-north-west of these rocks is the small isle of _Sangallan_ in 13° 45' south latitude, famous for seals and sea wolves, and north of this are the isles _Chinca_, _Pachacamac_, and _St. Lorenzo_, all small, but the latter of which is famous as forming the road of Callao, being the place where the Dutch fortified themselves in 1624, when they made an attempt against Lima. North of these are the _Farellones de Huara_, which are dangerous rocks, and the isles _de Saint Martin_, _de Santa_, and _de Chao_, also very small, and close to the coast of Peru. The next are the _Lobos de Mar_, formerly the resort of the Buccaneers, and the _Lobos de Tierra_, the first sixteen leagues from the shore, and the latter close to it; they are twelve miles from each other, in 6° 25' and 6° 45' south latitude, but are unimportant. North of these, in the gulf of Guayaquil, is the large island of _Puna_ already mentioned. The next on the coast of New Granada is _Salengo_, a small isle near Cape Santa Elena, and still further is _La Plata_, the place where Sir Francis Drake divided his plunder, and is a very small isle close to the coast, in 1° 10' north latitude, which is followed at a considerable distance on the shore of Atacames, by the _Isla del Gallo_, a small uninhabited spot, furnishing good wood and water, in 2° 28' south latitude, and 76° 47' west longitude. The next is _Gorgona_, in 3° 36' south latitude, and 77° 52' west longitude, 10 miles in circumference, and eighteen from the coast; opposite to these, but at a great distance from the land, are the _Gallapagos or Tortoise Islands_, but as they are uninhabited, and more than 110 leagues from the land, a description will take us beyond the limits we have prescribed to the work. From Plata there are no isles of any consequence on the coast, till those which lie in the bay of Panama, occur, but they have already been mentioned in the description of the isthmus. Crossing to the western side, and beginning at the northern boundary of Panama, we find several groups of rocky islets on the shores of that province, but none of them are of sufficient size or importance to merit a detail of their figure or qualities; passing therefore along the northern shore, the island of _Baru_, or _Varu_, presents itself near the southern part of that which Carthagena is built. It is large, fertile, and inhabited; its length is about sixteen miles, and breadth three, in 10° 12' north latitude, and 75° 25' west longitude.