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

X CONTENTS. PACE tions — View — Settlement — Animals — Foxes — Varieties — Seal — Whales — Fish and Fishery — Birds — Brushwood — Peat — Pasture — Potash — Orchilla — Grazing — Com — Fruit — Vegetables — Trees — Plants — Land — Situation of principal Settlement — Prospective advantages — Sugges- tions — Vemet's Establishment — Reflections 24 CHAPTER XIII. Anchor in Berkeley Sound — Le Magellan — British flag hoisted — Ruined Settlement — Mr. Hellyer drowned — Burial French Whalers — Unicom — Adventure — SquaU — Flashes —Fossils— Killing Wild Cattle— Sail from Falklands— River Negro — Maldonado — Constitucion — Heave down, copper, and refit Adventure — Signs of weather — Sound banks — Los Cesares — Settle with Harris, and part com- pany — Blanco Bay — Return to Maldonado — Monte Video 269 CHAPTER XIV. Paz and Liebre begin work — Chronometers — Fish — Animals — San Bias — ^Wrecks — River Negro — Del Carmen — Inha- bitants — Indians — Trade — Wilhams drowned — Port De- sire — Gale — Salinas — Lightning — Bones in Tomb — ^Trees — Dangers — New Bay — Cattle — Seal — Soil — River Chu- pat— Drift Timber — Fertility — ^Wild Cattle— Valdes Creek — Imminent danger — Tide Races — Bar of the Negro — Hunting — ^Attack of Indians — VUlarino — Falkner 295 CHAPTER XV. Beagle and Adventure sail from Monte Video — Port Desire — Bellaco Rock — Refraction — Port San Julian — Viedma Drake — Magalhaens — Patagonians — Port Famine — San Sebastian Bay — Woollya — Jemmy — Story — Treachery — Oens men — Improvement — Gratitude — Falklands Events — Capt. Seymour — Search for Murderers — Lieut. Smith — Brisbane — Wreck — Sufferings — Lieutenant CHve — Sail from Falklands 316