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. XXVll TAOE lands — Deepwater Sound — Breaker Bay — Grafton Islands — Geological remarks — ^Barbara Channel — Mount Sky- ring — Compasses affected — Drawings — -Provisions — Op- portimities lost 360 CHAPTER XXI. Skyring's chart — Noir Island — Penguins — Fuegians — Sar- miento — Townshend Harbour — Horace Peaks — Cape Desolation — Boat lost — Basket — Search in Desolation Bay — Natives — Heavy Gale — Surprise — Seizure — Conse- quences — Retm^n to Beagle — Sail to Stew^art Harbour Set out again — Escape of Natives — Unavailing search Discomforts — Tides — Nature of Coast — Doris Cove Christmas Sound — Cook — York-Minster — March Har- bour — ^Build a boat — Treacherous rocks — Skirmish with the Natives — Captives — Boat Memory — Petrel 386 CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Murray returns — Go to New Year Sound — See Diego Ramirez Islands from Henderson Island — WeddeU's Indian Cove — Sympiesometer — Return to Christmas Sound Beagle sails — Passes the Ildefonso and Diego Ramirez Islands — Anchors in Nassau Bay — Orange Bay — Yapoos — Mr. Murray discovers the Beagle Channel — Numerous Natives — Guanacoes — Compasses affected — Cape Horn Specimens — Chanticleer — Mistake about St. Francis Bay — ^Diego Ramirez Islands — Chmate — San Joachim Cove Bamevelt Isles — Evouts Isle — Lennox Harbour 417 CHAPTER XXIII. Set out in boats — Find Guanacoes — Murray Narrow — ^BircL Fungus — Tide — Channel — Glaciers — View — Mountains Unbroken chain — Passages — Steam-vessels — Jemmy But- ton — Puma — Nest — Accident — Natives — Murray's Jour- nal — Cape Graham — Cape Kinnaird — Spaniard Harbour