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ange Bay. Our observations placed it in latitude 55° 31' 

 00" south, and longitude 68° 00' 20" west. It is capacious, 

 easy of access, and better protected from the southwest 

 winds than any place as yet known on the coast of Terra 

 del Fuego. About a mile from the southern shore are two 

 islands, the largest of which is two miles in length, of a 

 moderate height, and called Burnt Island. The land to 

 the southward is rocky and barren, but that to the north- 

 ward abounds in wood and water. The trees grow nearly 

 down to the water's edge, and some are from sixty to seven- 

 ty feet in height, having all their tops bent to the northeast 

 by the prevailing southwest winds. The beach was covered 

 with rocks of trap formation ; it also abounded in shells, 

 especially in the muscle and petela. 



On the morning after our arrival, a canoe with six natives, 

 five men and one woman, came off to the ship, bringing with 

 them spear-heads and necklaces made of shells, which they 

 readily exchanged for cotton handkerchiefs and pieces of 

 iron. They were invited to come on board, but at first only 

 one would venture ; this was a young man about nineteen 

 years of age, and rather good-looking. They were evidently 

 of the same race as those we had seen at Relief Harbor ; 

 they spoke the same language, and resembled them in their 

 features and dress. The woman was old and extremely ugly, 

 and as masculine in her appearance as any of the men. She 

 declined coming on board. Her face was painted black and 

 red in vertical lines, and she wore a necklace made of shells ; 

 her posture while she remained in the boat was that of a 

 squat. Their canoe was made of strips of bark sewed to- 

 gether, and strengthened by ribs and gunwale pieces, and 

 was about twenty-five feet long and three feet wide. The 

 blades of the paddles were so narrow as to be of very little 

 use in a sea way. The bottom of the canoe was covered 



