i:i CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Excursion to St. F^— Thistle betls— Habits of the bizcacha— Little owl— » 

 Saline streams — Level plains — Mastodon — St. F6— Change in landscape 

 — Geology — Tooth of extinct horse — Relation of the fossil and recent 

 quadrupecls of North and South America — Effects of a great drought — 

 Parana — Habits of the jaguar — Scissor-beak — Kingfisher, parrot, and 

 scissor-tail — Revolution — Buenos Ayres — State of government . 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento — Value of an estancia — Cattle, how 

 counted — Singular breed of oxen — Perforated pebbles — Shepherd dogs — 

 Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding — Character of inhabitants — Rio Plata 

 — Flocks of butterflies — Aeronaut spiders — Phosphorescence of the sea — 

 Port Desire — Guanaco — Port St. Julian — Geology of Patagonia — Fossil 

 gigantic animal — Types of organisation constant — Change in the zoology/ 

 of America — Causes of extinction 



CHAPTER IX. 



Santa Ciuz — Expedition up the river — Indians — Immense streams of 

 basaltic lava — Fragments not transported by the river— Excavation of 

 the valley — Condor, habits of — Cordillera — Erratic boulders of great size 

 — Indian relics — Return to the ship — Falkland Islands — Wild horses, 

 cattle, rabbits — W'oU-like fox — Fire made of bones — Manner of hunting' ' 

 wild cattle — Geology — Streams of stones — Scenes of violence — Penguin — 

 Geese — Eggsofdoris — Compound animals iSi 



CHAPTER X. 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An account of the 

 Fuegians on board — Interview with the savages — Scenery 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 207 



CHAPTER XI. 



Strait of Magellan — Port Famine— Ascent of Mount Tarn — Forests — Edible 

 fungus — Zoology — Great seaweed — Leave Tierra del Fuego — Climate — 

 Fruit-trees and productions of the southern coasts — Height of snow-line 

 on the Cordillera — Descent of glaciers to the sea — Icebergs formed — 

 Transportal of boulders —Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands 

 — Preservation of frozen carcasses — Recapitulation 233 



CHAPTER XII. 



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

 Ascend the Bell of Quillota — Shattered masses of greenstone — Immense 

 valleys — Mines — State of miners — Santiago — Hot-baths of Cauquenes — 

 Gold-mines — Grinding-mills — Perforated stones — Habits of the puma- 

 El Turco and tapacolo — Humming-birds ...,,.. 253 



