TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



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Object of the Voyage Former Surveys of Straits of Magellan Change 

 of Programme Selection of Ship Equipment Arrangements for 

 Natural History Work Change of Captain List of Officers . . i 4 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure from England Storm Petrels A Sparrow-hawk at Sea 

 Collecting Surface Organisms with Tow-net Water-kite Wire 

 Sounding Apparatus Land-swallow at Sea Gulfweed Phospho- 

 rescence of Seawater Arrive at Madeira Curious Town Dredging 

 Work A Pinery Discoloured Seawater Petrels again St. Vin- 

 cent Cape de Verdes Pelagic Animals Sounding near Abrolhos 

 Bank Dredging over Hotspur Bank Dredging over Victoria Bank 

 Moths and Butterflies on the Ocean Extraordinary Vitality of 

 Sphynx Moths Arrive at Monte Video Gauchos Trip into Interior 

 of Uruguay Buenos Ayres Dr. Burmeister's Museum Arrive at 

 the Falklands "Stone Runs." 5 33 



CHAPTER II. 



We enter Straits of Magellan Reach Sandy Point Gold and Coal 

 Surrounding Country Elizabeth Island Dredging Fuegians at 

 Port Famine We enter Smyth's Channel Canoe "Portage" at 

 Isthmus Bay Arrive at Tom Bay A Fuegian Family Trinidad 

 Channel Climate of Western Patagonia Flora Rock Formation 

 Soilcap Natives The Channel Tribe of Fuegians Scarcity of 

 Old People Water-birds of Tom Bay Sea Otters A Concealed 

 "Portage" Habits of Gulls and Shags Steamer Ducks Land- 

 shells Freshwater Fish Deer 34 65 



