 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Monadnock yakabva musi wa5 October mukambani ine mapaddle frigates uye uye sloop. Chiratidziri chakatenderera nzira yose kuenda kuCalifornia chose chose pasi pokumhanya kwacho uye chinetso chikuru chakashumwa chakanga chiri chokuti tembiricha iri mukamuri remoto yakavamba kubva pa2C kusvika pa6C. Vafambi vaiwa zuva nezuva nemhaka yokupisa uye vaitofanira kupiwa mari yokuwedzera uye zvinwiwa kuti varume vatore nzvimbo yavo. Mushure mekumira pazviteshi zvakawanda zveSouth America, squadron yakayambuka Strait yeMagellan ndokusvika kuValparaíso mukupera kwaKurume 1866 apo squadron yeSpain yakanga ichigadzirira kurwisa guta risina kudzivirirwa, zvinopesana nemutemo wepasi rose, panguva yeChincha Islands Hondo. Commodore John Rogers, mutungamiri wechikwata cheAmerica, akaedza kunyengetedza Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez kuti arege kubhomba, asi wokupedzisira akataura kuti yakanga iri nyaya yekuremekedzwa kweSpain. Rogers akanga atova nezvikepe zvake zvakajeka nokuda kwechiito mukuedza kusingabudiriri kutyisidzira Méndez Núñez uye akanga akagadzirira kuvhura moto kana akagamuchira rubatsiro kubva kuchikwata chiduku cheBritain pachiteshi chengarava. Izvozvo zvakanga zvisati zvaitika sezvo gurukota reBritain raiva mutaundi racho rakarambidza Rear-Admiral Joseph Denham kuita chiito uye Rogers akamanikidzwa kusiya basa. 