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

xiv CONTENTS. PAGE Missionary Embarrassments — Society's Lands — Discon- tent of Settlers — Purchase of Land — Influence of Mission- aries — Their sphere of action 598 CHAPTER XXVL > North Cape of New Zealand — Superstitions — Cook's great Lizard — Traditions — Currents — Thermometer — Sydney — Dr . Darwin — Drought — Aqueduct — Position — Disad- vantages — Ill-acquired wealth of Convicts, or Emancip- ists — Hobart Town — Advantages of Van Diemen's Land King George Soimd — Natives — Dance — Keeling Islands — ^Tides — Soundings — Coral formations — Malays — Fish — Weather — Mauritius — Cape of Good Hope — St. Helena — Ascension — Bahia — Pemambuco — Cape Verde Islands — Azores — Arrive in England 619 CHAPTER XXVII. Remarks on the early migrations of the human race 640 CHAPTER XXVIII. A very few Remarks vdth reference to the Deluge 657