Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.1): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

CONTENTS. VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. PAGE Departure from Monte Video — Port Santa Elena — Geologi- cal remarks — Cape Fairweather — Non-existence of Chalk — Natural History — Approach to Cape Virgins, and the Strait of Magalhaens (or Magellan) 1 CHAPTER II. Enter the Strait of Magalhaens (or Magellan), and anchor off Cape Possession — First Narrow — Gregory Bay — Pata- gonian Indians — Second Narrow — Elizabeth Island — Freshwater Bay — Fuegian Indians — Arrival at Port Famine 1 CHAPTER III. Prepare the Beagle, and a decked boat (the Hope) for sur- veying the Strait — Beagle sails westward, and the Hope towards the south-east — Sarmiento's Voyage — and des- cription of the colony formed by him at Port Famine Steamer Duck — Large trees — Parroquets — Mount Tarn Barometrical observations — Geological character — Report of the Hope's cruise 26 CHAPTER IV. Deer seen — Hope sails again — Eagle Bay — Gabriel Channel — ' Williwaws ' — Port Waterfall — Natives — Admiralty Sound — Gabriel Channel — Magdalen Channel — Hope re- turns to Port Famine — San Antonio — Lomas Bay — Loss of boat — Master and two seamen drowned 48