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

Jan. 1827. arrive at port famijte. 25 spongy moss, the vivid green colour of which produces, from a distance, an appearance of most luxuriant pasture land. Sir Jolin Narborough noticed, and thus describes them : " The wood shows in many places as if there were plantations : for there were several clear places in the woods, and grass growing like fenced fields in England, the woods being so even by the sides of it."* The wind, after leaving Freshwater Bay, increased, with strong squalls from the S.W., at times blowing so hard as to lay the ship almost on her broadside. It was, however, so much in our favour, that we reached the entrance of Port Famine early, and after some little detention from baffling winds, which always render the approach to that bay somewhat difficult, the ships anchored in the harbour. * Narborough, p. 67.