390 Mr. H. DurnforcVs Notes on the 



From the time I arrived at the colony till the 22nd Oc- 

 tober, I was engaged in collecting in the neighbourhood, 

 of Chupat. On that date I started with two of the colonists 

 on an expedition to Lake Colguape"^ and the river Sengel. 

 This is not the place to give an account of our expedition ; 

 but to enable my readers rightly to understand the following 

 notes, I will rapidly run over the route we adopted. 



We followed the sea-coast as far as Montemayor height 

 (cutting off the points), which we reached on the 31st Oc- 

 tober. On the following day we returned by compass W. 

 by S., and the day afterwards W.S.W., arriving in the after- 

 noon on the banks of a little river, which we called the Sen- 

 gelen (the Welsh diminutive for Sengel), which flows from 

 the lake to the river Chupat. Following this river up, on 

 the 8th November we reached the lake ; and this point I con- 

 sider, from dead reckoning from my daily journal and from 

 two observations I made with a box-sextant I carried with 

 me, to be in about lat. 45° 50' S., long. 68° 40' W. ; but I do 

 not pretend to scientific accuracy. One o£ my companions 

 places the lake in about the same position as I do ; my other 

 companion considers it further south. The difterence be- 

 tween the point fixed by my observations with the sextant 

 and my dead reckoning is only nine miles; and I therefore 

 think I am not far out. We calculated this lake to be about 

 twenty miles in length and fifteen in breadth ; and after 

 travelling along its southern and a portion of its western 

 shores, we arrived, on the 10th November, at the river Sengel, 

 which we found flowing into the lake. Continuing our 

 journey up the river on the 11th, we came in sight of another 

 large lake ; but it being on the other side of the Sengel to the 

 one we were on, we were unable to visit its shores. This 

 lake, if not as large as the first-mentioned, has a greater 



* The Teliuelclie Indians call this lake " Col ;" but as it is marked in 

 many maps Colguape, though certainly placed in an entirely wrong posi- 

 tion, I think it is better, in order to save confusion, to call it Colguape. 

 " Col " is the name used by the southern Indians for a lake, whilst 

 "Guape," is employed by the Moluches and northern Indians to designate 

 the same thing. 



