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. XXIU PAGE — Death of Lieutenant Sholl — Adelaide sails — Supposed Channel of San Antonio — Useless Bay — Natives — Port San Antonio — Humming-birds — Fuegians — Beagle sails — Sarmiento — Roldan — Pond — Whales — Structure — Scenery — PortGaUant 118 CHAPTER IX. Detention in Port Gallant — Humming-birds in snow- showers — Fuegians — Geological remarks — Canoes — Car- ving — Birds — Fish — Shag Narrows — Glaciers — Avalan- ches — Natives — Chmate — Winter setting in — Adelaide loses a boat — Floods — Lightning — Scurvy — Adelaide's survey — ^Bougainville Harbour — Indians cross the Strait, and visit Port Famine — Sealing vessels sail — Scurvy in- creases — Adelaide sent for guanaco meat — Return of the Beagle — Captain Stokes very iU — Adelaide brings meat from the Patagonians — Death of Captain Stokes 133 CHAPTER X. Account of the Beagle's cruise — Borja Bay — Cape Quod Stuart Bay — Cape Notch — Remarks on weather, and errors of Chart — ^Evangelists — Santa Lucia — Madre de Dios — Gulf of Trinidad — Port Henry — Puma's track Humming-birds — Very bad WTather — Campana Island Dangers — Gale — Wet — Sick — Santa Barbara — Wager's beam — Wigwams — Guaineco Islands — Cape Tres Montes — St. Paul — Port Otway — Hoppner Sound — Cape Raper 154< CHAPTER XI. Leave Port Otway — San Quintm Sound — Gulf of Penas Kelly Harbour — St. Xavier Island — Death of Serjeant Lyndsey — Port Xavier — Ygnacio Bay — Channel's mouth — Bad weather — Perilous situation — Lose the yawl — Sick list — Return to Port Otway — Thence to Port Famine Gregory Bay — ^Natives — Guanaco meat — Skunk — Con- dors — Brazihans — Juanico — Captain Foster — Changes of officers ly^