We embarked early in March, and in seven days reached Greytown, where we united with the passengers from New York, and proceeded, by the Nicaragua River and Lake, for the Pacific Ocean.

The river was low, and the little steam canal-boats, four in number, grounded often, so that the passengers had to get into the water, to help them over the bare.
In all there were about six hundred passengers, of whom about sixty were women and children.

In four days we reached Castillo, where there is a decided fall, passed by a short railway, and above this fall we were transferred to a larger boat, which carried us up the rest of the river, and across the beautiful lake Nicaragua, studded with volcanic islands.

Landing at Virgin Bay, we rode on mules across to San Juan del Sur, where lay at anchor the propeller S.S.
Lewis (Captain Partridge, I think).

Passengers were carried through the surf by natives to small boats, and rowed off to the Lewis.