A ship's crew can land and carry away these bags without tumbling over each other.

It is a grand thing to have a storehouse with a floor as wide as many acres." A portion of the bags, however, were arranged in a different manner.

They were placed in a circle two bags deep, inclosing a space about ten feet in diameter.

This, Captain Horn explained, he intended as a sort of little fort, in which the man left in charge could defend himself and the property, in case marauders should land upon the coast.
"You don't intend," exclaimed the Chilian captain, "that you will leave a guard here! Nobody would have cause to come near the spot from either land or sea, and you might well leave your guano here for a year or more, and come back and find it." "No," said Captain Horn, "I can't trust to that.

A coasting-vessel might put in here for water.