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

XXVm CONTENTS. PAGE — ^Valentjm Bay — Cape Good Success — Natives — Lennox Island — Strait le Maire — Good Success Bay — Accident Tide race — San Vicente — San Diego — Tides — Soundings — North-East Coast — Ssm Sebastian — Reflections — Port Desire — Monte Video — Santa Catharina — Rio de Janeiro 438 CHAPTER XXIV. A few Nautical remarks upon the passage round Cape Horn and upon that through the Strait of Magalhaens, or Ma- gellan 463