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;kottsberg 



P^ig. 76. Coast of Masafuera between Tierras Blancas and Vicente Porras. 



Strom ^^/a 191 7. 



Photo K. Back- 



"loberias", L. \^entaua (=^ window, a hole in the rock), L. Nueva and L. del Buque 

 I 'arado. 



Playa del Buque Varado ("the beach of the stranded ship") is a wide tongue 

 formed by the talus deposits; probably one or several landslides have occurred 

 here, where tlie barranca is of formidable height and steepness (fig. 78). A stream 

 coming from the gullies above has cut a winding bed (fig. 82). 



I'jiseiiada loltthi is a shallow open cove W of Cabo Norte. When it is im- 

 possible to approach the east coast boats anchor here, where landing, as a rule, 

 meets with little difficulty. Consequently, numerous weeds mix with the native 

 herbs and grasses covering the slopes at the foot of the barranca. Unfortunately 

 Token is (juite unfit as a base camp, as the highland cannot be reached, nor 

 is there a j)assage along the shore to O. Sanchez. 



The table-land N of 0- de las Casas. 



The Plauo de la Mona ("she-monkey's plain"), a name of unknown origin 

 (there are no monkeys on Juan Fernandez), and the rim of the coast escarpment 

 can be reached from several valleys. The usual route takes us up a zigzag trail 

 from Casas, across a dry gully and through the large, branched and well for- 

 ested O. del Mono (another cjueer name) to the abandoned convict settlement 

 Las Chozas, situated among the remnants of luma forest 550 — 650 m above sea 



