3 1 6 Voyage of the Novara. 



3Iandadores, or overseers, begged us to enter a large, hand- 

 some building where the process of wine-preparing was being 

 carried on, and gave us some new wine, here called Chicha (pro- 

 nounced Tchitcha), which tasted very sweet and palatable. 

 The Chicha is used in enormous quantities in Chile, and is 

 even sent abroad in large bottle-shaped skins, but, owing to 

 this mode of keeping it, the wine, which is set down much as 

 cider is in Normandy, acquires a villanous twang that is any- 

 thing but agreeable. 



In Valparaiso we were so fortunate as to fall in with Mr. 

 Kindermann, one of the founders of the German settlement of 

 Valdivia, who has been long resident there, and has large 

 landed property in that direction. We also made the acquaint- 

 ance of Dr. Philippi, who, although attending to his duties as 

 Professor of Natural History in the University of Santiago, 

 finds time to take an active part in the colony of Valdivia. It 

 would appear from the inquiries instituted by competent per- 

 sons, that the main obstacle to the permanent success and 

 extension of the German colony consists in the want of roads, 

 and tliat the fertility of the soil justifies the most sanguine 

 hopes, so soon as more ready means of communication are 

 provided, that the numerous products raised by this indus- 

 trious community will no longer want either a steady market 

 or extensive buyers. 



Another German colony, which was organized with ex- 

 tensive privileges established at Punta Arenas in Magel- 

 haen's Straits, and now numbers some 150 colonists, not only 



