Drawing. [top right, vertical orientation] Sent to Mr H. (Mr) by Parry, Nov/33. 1833.11. The annotation at top centre reads: "Narrative VOL 1 Page 1"; that near the right base (in a different hand) reads: "Page 1 Vol 1".

The scene is similar to that in 11r, but taken from a closer vantage point to the left of the roof of the hidden building, which in this version stands in the right centre at the back of the foreground. The sky is blank, with the sun shining from the right perpendicular to the viewer's line of sight. The triangular hill topped by the possible fort, seen from a different vantage point in 8v, is shown here on the right, on the far side of the bay behind anchored ships. There is a greater indication than in 11r of rough sand-dune-like vegetation in region of the hidden building, especially to its left. A road (not visible in 8v) leads from the left of the picture between that foreground rough and a higher crop of rock in the left midground which obscures the lower parts of the buildings, first rightwards then curving back round the higher crop of rock in the centre of the picture. This road would become the pathway indicated in 8v, but in this picture that continuation is out of sight behind the crop of rock. On the visible portion of the road in the left centre, three women follow some distance behind a four-ox cart with wheels some 2m in diameter supporting a platform with open-slatted sides. Two gauchos attend to the cart, one walking behind and to the left, the other proceeding in front of it on horseback. This group is heading towards the town; closer towards the town there are two less distinctly depicted figures on horseback, and closer still two figures walking. From the right centre to centre there is a more distant and less detailed indication of a larger convoy of people and carts approaching the town from right to left in front of the built-up area, which stretches from the lightly-fortified harbour front into the main body of the town out of sight behind the rocky outcrop on the left. The top of the rocky outcrop is occupied by the upper portions of buildings, prominent above which rise the dome and conically-topped towers of Montevideo Cathedral, here drawn with a greater indication of the structure of the facade.