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vessels / Ships, or Barks,/ close in Shore, and bound down, the Coast -- and from their position Looks, & all, we concluded, They were some of Santa Anna's fleet -- on their way down to Acapulco to blockade that port again -- as the trouble between the two / would-be parties, in Mexico, / That is, the two, striving for ascendancy &c -- Santa Anna & Alvarez is not settled yet -- and I doubt, if it is for some time yet -- Years, I might say! from what have seen, and heard respecting same -- however! So long as they donot trouble me -- I'm willing they should fight it out among themselves -- I was on Deck till late in the Eve So pleasant there -- at 12 N. today, we were in Lat 17-46-North -- Long 102-25 West, distance the Last 24 hours 230 miles -- and our course about South East, as before Saturday Dec 9h. -- A most Splendid morning again -- we Entered the harbor of Acapulco at 4 1/2 this Am, where we are to take on some Coal -- Water and Some provisions &c -- we found the U S Steam Frigate Susquehanna in town here -- She Sailed from San Francisco, some few days before we did, and bound home. -- She is one of the U S vessels, that visited Japan -- time Como blank Effected