Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

VIU CONTKNTS. CHAPTER IV. Loss of the Thetis — Causes of her -wTeck — Approach to Rio de Janeiro — Owen Glendower — Disturbance in Rio Harbour — Observations — Chronometers — Return to Ba- hia — Deaths — Macacu — Malaria — Return to Rio de Janeiro — Meridian Distances — Regatta — Fuegians — Lightning — Leave Rio — Equipment — Santa Martha Weather — Santa Catharina — Santos — River Plata — Pam- peroes — Gales off Buenos Ayres — Monte Video — Point Piedras — Cape San Antonio — River Plata — Currents Tides — Barometer — Absence of Trees — Cattle 67 CHAPTER V. Eastern Pampa Coast — Point Medanos — Mar-chiquito — Ranges of HiUs — Direction of Inlets, Shoals, and Rivers — Cape Corrientes — Tosca Coast — Blanco Bay — Mount Hermoso — Port Belgrano — Mr. Harris — Ventana Moun- tain — View — Argentino — Commandant — Major — Situa- tion — Toriano — Indians — Fossils — Animals — Fish — Cli- mate — Pumice — Ashes — Conway — ^Deliberations — Conse- quent Decision — ResponsibHity incurred — Paz — Liebre Gale — Hunger — Fossils at Hermoso — Fossils at Point Alta — Express sent to Buenos Ayres — Suspicions and absurd alarm — Rodriguez 97 CHAPTER VI. Beagle sails with Paz and Liebre — Part company — Beagle visits Buenos Ayres — Nautical remarks on the Plata — Sail from Monte Video for San Bias — Lieut. Wickham and ten- ders—Butterflies—Sail for Tierra del Fuego— White water — Icebergs —Rocks — Cape San Sebastian — Oens men — Cape San Diego — Good Success Bay — Natives Guanacoes — Cape Horn — St. Martin Cove — Gales — Heavy Seas — Nassau Bay — Goree Road — Prepare to land Matthews and the Fuesrians 114