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 . . 1—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 



