Returning on board, we stood northward, that we might obtain a view of the coast as we sailed along.  Dick and I remained on deck all the morning.  At last we sighted Looe, the first town we had seen on the Cornish coast.  Looe stands at the mouth of a valley, at the bottom of which runs a stream.  It consists of East and West Looe--romantic foreign-looking places.  The houses are grouped together irregularly, with whitewashed walls, stairs outside, green roofs and grey gables, with myrtles, geraniums, and other plants of a warm climate flourishing in their midst.  West Looe is inhabited chiefly by fishermen, their humble cottages being scattered about without any respect to order. However, we obtained but a distant view of it.