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

XXVI CONTENTS. PAGE Valparaiso — Juan Fernandez — Fishery — Goats — Dogs Geology — Botany — Shells — Spanish accounts — Anson's voyage — Talcahuano — Concepcion — Pinoleo — Araucanian Indians — Re-enter the Strait of Magalhaens — Fuegians 298 CHAPTER XVIII. Adelaide's last cruise — Port Otway — San Quintin — Marine Islands — Unknown river or passage — San Tadeo — Isthmus of Ofqui — San Rafael — Sufferings and route of Wager's party — Channel's Mouth — Bjrron — Cheap — EUiot — Hamilton — Campbell — Indian Cacique — Passage of the Desecho — Osorio — Xavier Island — Jesuit Sound — Kirke's report — Night tides — Guaianeco Islands — Site of the Wager's wreck — Bulkely and Cummings — Speedwell Bay — Indigenous wild Potato — Mesier Channel — Fatal Bay — Death of Mr. Millar — Fallos Channel — Lieutenant Sky- ring's illness — English Narrow — Fish — Wigwams — In- dians — Level Bay — Brazo Ancho — Eyre Sound — Seal Icebergs — Walker Bay — Nature of the Country — Habits of the Natives — Scarcity of population 323 CHAPTER XIX. Sarmiento Channel — Ancon sin Salida — Cape Earnest Canal of the Moimtains — Termination of the Andes Kirke Narrow — Easter Bay — Disappointment Bay — Ob- struction Sound — Last Hope Inlet — Swans — Coots — Deer River — Lagoon — Singular Eddies — Passage of the Narrow — Arrival at Port Famine — Zoological remarks 346 CHAPTER XX. Beagle sails from San Carlos — ^Enters Strait — Harbour of Mercy — Cape Pillar — Apostles — Judges — Landfall Island — Cape Gloucester — Dislocation Harbour — Week Islands — Fuegians — Latitude Bay — Boat's crew in distress Petrel — Passages — Otway Bay — Cape Tate — Fincham Is-