‘DOUBLING OF CAPE HORN, 
AND 
RESIDENCE IN CHILI. 
WE continued our course to the South very 
agreeably, with fine weather and a favourable 
wind. Under thirty-nine degrees of latitude, 
however, we could already perceive how much 
further the South pole extends its unfavourable 
influence than the North. The sky was no 
longer clear, the wind became changeable and 
violent, the air much colder, and the frequent 
sight of the whale, and of a giant bird called 
the albatross, warned us that we were approach- 
ing the stormy region. We afterwards shot 
