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, XXV CHAPTER XV. PAGE Extracts from the Journals of Lieutenants Skyring and Graves — Magdalen Channel — Keats Sound — Mount Sar- miento — ^Barrow Head — Cockbum Channel — Prevalence of south-west winds — Melville Sound — Ascent of Mount Skyring — Memorial — Cockbum and Barbara Channels Mass of Islets and Rocks — Hewett Bay — ^Cypress trees useful — Adelaide rejoins Beagle in Port Gallant — Captain King's narrative resumed — Plan of future proceedings Adelaide arrives at Chiloe — Abstract of Lieutenant Sky- ring's account of her proceedings — Smyth Channel — Mount Bumey — 'Ancon sin Salida' — Natives — Kirke Narrow — Guia Narrow — Pecuhar tides — Indians in plank Canoes — Passage to ChU6e 251 CHAPTER XVI. Chiloe — Its probable importance — Valdivia founds seven Cities ; afterwards destroyed by the Indians — Migration of Spanish settlers — Province and Islands of Chiloe — Dis- tricts and population — Government — Defence — Winds To'W'n — Durability of wooden BuUdings — Cultivation Want of industry — Improvement — Dress — Habits of lower Classes — Morality — Schools — Language — Produce — Manufactures — Exports and imports — Varieties of wood Alerse — Roads — Piraguas — Ploughs — Com — Potatoes Contributions — Birds — SheU-fish — Medical practitioners — Remedies — Climate 269 CHAPTER XVII. Chiloe the last Spanish possession in South America — Freyre's Expedition — Failure — Second Expedition rnider Freyre and Blanco — QuintanOla's capitulation — Chiloe taken Aldunate placed in command — Chiloe a dependency of Chile — Beagle sails to sea coast of Tierra del Fuego Adelaide repaired — Adelaide sails — Adventure goes to