CONTENTS. VU 



CHAPTER X. 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An Account 

 of the Fuegians on board — Interview with the Savages — Scen- 

 ery of the Forests — Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable 

 Condition of the Savages — Famines — Cannibals — Matricide — 

 Religious Feelings — Great Gale — Beagle Channel — Ponsonby 

 Sound— Build Wigwams and settle the Fuegians — Bifurcation 

 of the Beagle Channel — Glaciers — Return to the Ship — Second 

 Visit in the Ship to the Settlement — Equality of Condition 

 amongst the Natives Page 262 



CHAPTER XI. 



Strait of Magellan — Port Famine — Ascent of Mount Tarn — For- 

 ests—Edible Fungus — Zoology- Great Sea-weed — Leave Tier- 

 ra del Fuego— Climate — Fruit-trees and Productions of the 

 southern Coasts — Height of Snow-line on the Cordillera — De- 

 scent of Glaciers to the Sea — Icebergs formed — Transportal of 

 Boulders — Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands — 

 Preservation of frozen Carcasses — Recapitulation . . 297 



CHAPTER Xn. 



Valparaiso — Excursion to the foot of the Andes — Structure of the 

 Land — Ascend the Bell of Quillota — Shattered Masses of Green- 

 stone— Immense Valleys — Mines — State of Miners — Santiago 

 ^Hot Baths of Cauquenes — Gold-mines — Grindmg-mills — Per- 

 forated Stones— Habits of the Puma — El Turco and Tapacolo 

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