Stat feom 17th April to 11th May, ]859. 



club. 



Importance of Chile for German emigration. — First impressions of 

 Valparaiso. — Stroll through the city. — Commercial relations of Chile 

 with Australia and California. — Quebrada de Juan Gomez. — The roadstead. 

 — The Old Quarter and Fort Rosario. — Cerro Algre. — Fire Companies. — 

 Abadie's nursery-garden. — Campo Santo. — The German community and its 

 -A compatriot festival in honour of the Novara. — Journey to Santiago de 

 Chile. — University. — -National Museum. — Observatory. — Industrial and agricultu- 

 ral schools. — Professor Don Ignacio Domey Ko. — Audience of the President of the 

 Republic. — Don ManuelMontt and his political opponents. — Family life in Santiago. 

 — Excursion trip on the southern railroad. — Maipu Bridge. — Melepilla. — The Haci- 

 endaof Las Esmeraldas. — Chilean hospitality. — Return to Valparaiso. — Quillota. — 

 The German colony in Valdivia. — Colonization in the Straits of Magellan. — Ball at 

 the Austrian Consul-general's in honour of the Novara. — Extraordinary voyage of a 

 damaged ship. — Departure of the Novara. — Voyage round Cape Horn. — The Falk- 

 land Islands. — The French corvette Eurydice. — The Sargasso sea. — Encounter with 

 a merchant-ship in the open ocean. — Hopes disappointed and curiosity excited. — 

 Passage through the Azores channel. — A vexataous calm. 



The free State of Chile enjoys a liiglier degree of tranquillity 

 than any of the former Spanish dependencies of South Ame- 



