NOTE I. 



ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA TO TIERRA DEL FUEGO 

 AND BACK THROUGH THE SMITH-CHANNEL. 



BY 



F. E. BLAA.UW. 



On the first of Febr. 1911 I left Amsterdam on the 

 new steamer "Zeelandia" of the '^Hollandsche Lloyd". 



The weather was cold and foggy and hoar-frost was 

 everywhere. 



After having touched at Dover, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Yigo 

 and La Corunna, we arrived at Lisbon where the beautiful 

 clear weather was quite a relief after the darkness of the 

 northern skies. 



We went on land and visited some fine buildings in 

 the town and saw workmen busy repairing the holes that 

 had been made in the roof and front of the Royal Palace 

 which had been shelled from a man-of-war lying in the 

 port by the insurgent republicans. 



Towards evening we left the beautiful port under a 

 glorious setting sun and now started to cross the Atlantic 

 to Rio de Janeiro. 



The whole crossing was very uneventful. We passed 

 Madeira, the Canary islands, and the Peak of Teneriffe 

 clad in snow showed us all the glories of a setting sun 

 on its white surface. 



At about the 20° northern latitude we passed a zone 

 where a kind of Physalia was very abundant and on the 

 not very quiet sea the beautiful iridescent floats looking 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museuna, Vol. X:XXV. 



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