many Gulls, and soon also the lovely Cape Pigeons (Daption 

 capense) were flying around us. On the first day of Easter 

 the spouts of Whales were also seen repeatedly, but the 

 animals being hunted all the year round they are very wild 

 and don't come near. 



The coast of Tres Montes etc. was remarkable by the 

 fact that nearly every promontory that ran out into the 

 sea had a big rock standing in front of it like one of the 

 stones of stonehenge and sometimes a second smaller one 

 standing in front of that one. 



In one place there was like an enormous mined castle 

 with archways and windows standing in the sea away 

 from the coast. 



We now passed along the western side of the Chonos 

 Archipelafjo and the clear weather always being with us 

 we got a splendid view of the more northern snowmoun- 

 tains. 



Conspicuous amongst them all was the extraordinay Asses 

 Ears mountain with its snowclad top, surmounted by two 

 sharp points like the ears of an ass. 



Then more to the north followed smaller snowmoun- 

 tains, then the enormously massive Yanteles and in the end 

 the sharp snowclad pyramid of the Corcovado. 



It was a sight never to be forgotten. 



As we neared the island of Ascension which is the most 

 northern island of the Chonos Archipelago we came near 

 its rocky coast and here is one of the strongholds of the 

 Antarctic Goose. I never saw so many anywhere and was 

 told by the captain that he had always seen them there in 

 such numbers. 



They did not form flocks but kept together in small 

 families which were sitting on the rocks along the water. 



There were also a couple of White Herons and a good 

 many PhaJ. alhiventer. 



Following the coast we turned to the east and anchored 

 at Melinka a small place on Ascension. 



There we had again the most glorious view of the before 

 mentioned snowmountains and the foreground, formed by 



Notes from the Leyden üMuseum, Vol. XXXV. 



