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

462 SANTA CATALINA RIO DE JANEIRO. 1830. On the 9th of July we sailed from Monte Video, — on the 18th made the high land over the island of Santa Catalina, and after dark anchored in the bay. My object in calling there was to continue the chronometric chain, between Tierra del Fuego and Rio de Janeiro, by as short intervals as possible and the results so obtained proved to be very satisfactory. " While in Monte Video I tried to have the Fuegians vac- cinated, but the virus did not take any effect on them. Little Fuegia was living several days with an English family, who were extremely kind to her ; and the others were on shore at different times with me. No one noticed them ; being so very like the Indians of the neighbourhood. " The apparent astonishment and curiosity excited by what they saw, extraordinary to them as the whole scene must have been, were much less than I had anticipated ; yet their con- duct was interesting, and each day they became more com- municative. It was here that I first learned from them that they made a practice of eating their enemies taken in war. The women, they explained to me, eat the arms ; and the men the legs ; the trunk and head were always thrown into the sea. " On the 23d we sailed from Santa Catalina ; and on the 2d of Auoust anchored in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro." Here the extracts from Captain Fitz Roy's Journal end. The Adventure and the Beagle sailed together from Rio de Janeiro on the 6th of August, having left the Adelaide as a tender to the flag-ship, but reimbarked her officers and crew ; and, after a most tedious passage, anchored in Plymouth Sound on the 14th of October. Both vessels were soon afterwards paid off; the Beagle at Plymouth, and the Adventure at Woolwich.